From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] drivers: hv: kvp
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:54:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120724155412.GA23918@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343145672-3641-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:01:12AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to
> implement the mechanism to GET/SET IP addresses in the guest. This
> functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM
> replication functionality. The way IP configuration information
> is managed is distro specific. Based on the feedback I have gotten
> from Olaf, Greg, Steve, Ben and Mairus, I have chosen to seperate
> distro specific code from this patch-set. Most of the GET operation
> can be implemented in a way that is completely distro independent and
> I have implemented that as such and is included in this patch-set.
> Some of the attributes that can only be fetched in a distro
> dependent way as well the mechanism for configuring an interface
> (the SET operation) that is clearly distro specific is to be
> implemented via external scripts that will be invoked via the KVP
> code. We define here the interface to these scripts.
>
> Adding support for IP injection resulted in some changes to the
> protocol between the user level daemon and the kernel driver.
> These changes have been implemented in way that would retain
> compatibility with older daemons. I would like to thank Olaf and
> Greg for pointing out the compatibility issue.
Due to this being the middle of the merge window, I will not be able to
look at this until after 3.6-rc1 is out.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-24 16:01 [PATCH 00/17] drivers: hv: kvp K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 15:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-07-29 22:50 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-29 22:50 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 01/17] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use the standard format string to format GUIDs K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 02/17] Drivers: hv: Add KVP definitions for IP address injection K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 03/17] Drivers: hv: kvp: Cleanup error handling in KVP K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25 1:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:10 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 14:10 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 14:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:51 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 7:59 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 04/17] Drivers: hv: kvp: Support the new IP injection messages K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 05/17] Tools: hv: Prepare to expand kvp_get_ip_address() functionality K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 06/17] Tools: hv: Further refactor kvp_get_ip_address() K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 07/17] Tools: hv: Gather address family information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 08/17] Tools: hv: Gather subnet information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25 1:14 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:10 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 14:10 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 09/17] Tools: hv: Represent the ipv6 mask using CIDR notation K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 16:53 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:53 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 17:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 10/17] Tools: hv: Gather ipv[4,6] gateway information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-24 16:53 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-24 16:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-24 18:36 ` Dan Williams
2012-07-24 22:13 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 22:13 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 17:17 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 17:17 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 11/17] Tools: hv: Gather DNS information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 23:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 12/17] Tools: hv: Gather DHCP information K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 13/17] Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_SET_IP_INFO K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-25 1:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 1:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-25 14:48 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-25 14:48 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 17:33 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-30 17:33 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-30 19:12 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 19:12 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 18:03 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-30 18:32 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 18:32 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-30 19:19 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-31 10:34 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-31 10:34 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 14/17] Tools: hv: Rename the function kvp_get_ip_address() K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 15/17] Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_GET_IP_INFO K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 16/17] Tools: hv: Get rid of some unused variables K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-07-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 17/17] Tools: hv: Correctly type string variables K. Y. Srinivasan
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