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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-07-26 10:41:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-26 11:35:16 -0700 |
| commit | f938d2c892db0d80d144253d4a7b7083efdbedeb (patch) | |
| tree | 1fbc946a9fb59827001a5d4d5224abe5e624e605 /drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c | |
| parent | dfb68689bf3e3d31dc9fb5c2bde5379a4ca9b0ec (diff) | |
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lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.
So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c index ea52ca451f74..fb546b046445 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ -/* Actual hypercalls, which allow guests to actually do something. - Copyright (C) 2006 Rusty Russell IBM Corporation +/*P:500 Just as userspace programs request kernel operations through a system + * call, the Guest requests Host operations through a "hypercall". You might + * notice this nomenclature doesn't really follow any logic, but the name has + * been around for long enough that we're stuck with it. As you'd expect, this + * code is basically a one big switch statement. :*/ + +/* Copyright (C) 2006 Rusty Russell IBM Corporation This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
