From f938d2c892db0d80d144253d4a7b7083efdbedeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:41:02 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3