From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com, Andy King <acking@vmware.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files.
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:57:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130185755.GA26841@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27667508.9ZL27Yq4ZC@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:45:44AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> However you snipped the rest of my reply: do we really need to renumber
> ioctls? There is no benefit for the driver as its ioctl handler does
> not parse the numbers into components.
I don't know if you need to renumber, I really don't understand what you
were trying to do with this code, and as it was acting differently from
all other kernel ioctl declarations, I asked for some clarity.
If you can rewrite it to look sane, and keep the same numbers, that's
fine with me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-30 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-07 18:40 [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 01/12] VMCI: context implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 02/12] VMCI: datagram implementation George Zhang
2012-11-15 23:47 ` Greg KH
2012-11-15 23:47 ` Greg KH
2012-11-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 03/12] VMCI: doorbell implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 04/12] VMCI: device driver implementaton George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 06/12] VMCI: handle array implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 07/12] VMCI: queue pairs implementation George Zhang
2012-11-15 23:48 ` Greg KH
2012-11-15 23:48 ` Greg KH
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 08/12] VMCI: resource object implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 09/12] VMCI: routing implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 10/12] VMCI: guest side driver implementation George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:42 ` [PATCH 11/12] VMCI: host " George Zhang
2012-11-16 0:03 ` Greg KH
2012-11-16 0:03 ` Greg KH
2012-11-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files George Zhang
2012-11-16 0:01 ` Greg KH
2012-11-16 0:01 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:03 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-27 0:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-27 0:32 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:32 ` Greg KH
2012-11-27 0:45 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-30 16:47 ` Andy King
2012-11-30 17:09 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 17:09 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 17:20 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-30 18:39 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 18:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-30 18:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-11-30 20:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-30 20:44 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 20:44 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 20:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-11-30 21:17 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 18:39 ` Greg KH
2012-11-30 16:47 ` Andy King
2012-11-27 0:03 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-30 1:03 [PATCH 00/12] VMCI for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-10-30 1:05 ` [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files George Zhang
2012-10-30 2:32 ` Greg KH
2012-10-30 5:22 ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2012-10-30 5:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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