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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add handler for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:12:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140620051213.GA9960@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140620045704.GA4850@aepfle.de>

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:57:04AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> 
> > The RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event is received after the Hyper-V host
> > sleep or hibernation. We refresh network at this time.
> 
> > +	char *argv[] = { "/etc/init.d/network", "restart", NULL };
> 
> What happens if that file does not exist? Dead network in the guest?
> I tend to think if a VM with PV drivers goes to sleep it has to go
> through the whole suspend/resume cycle, very much like the "LID closed"
> event. So I think this and the other fbdev change that is floating
> around is wrong.

Ah, and what about systems with no /etc/init.d/ at all (like
systemd-based ones)?  You can't have a kernel driver ask userspace to
restart all networking connections, that seems really wrong.

greg k-h

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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add handler for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:12:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140620051213.GA9960@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140620045704.GA4850@aepfle.de>

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:57:04AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> 
> > The RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event is received after the Hyper-V host
> > sleep or hibernation. We refresh network at this time.
> 
> > +	char *argv[] = { "/etc/init.d/network", "restart", NULL };
> 
> What happens if that file does not exist? Dead network in the guest?
> I tend to think if a VM with PV drivers goes to sleep it has to go
> through the whole suspend/resume cycle, very much like the "LID closed"
> event. So I think this and the other fbdev change that is floating
> around is wrong.

Ah, and what about systems with no /etc/init.d/ at all (like
systemd-based ones)?  You can't have a kernel driver ask userspace to
restart all networking connections, that seems really wrong.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-20  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-20  1:34 [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add handler for RNDIS_STATUS_NETWORK_CHANGE event Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-20  1:34 ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-20  4:21 ` David Miller
2014-06-20  4:21   ` David Miller
2014-06-20  4:57 ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-20  5:12   ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-06-20  5:12     ` Greg KH
2014-06-20 16:09     ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23  8:02       ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-23 12:47         ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 12:47           ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 13:17           ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-23 13:17             ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-23 16:09             ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 16:09               ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 16:27               ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-23 18:21                 ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 18:21                   ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-26  8:45                   ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-26  8:45                     ` Olaf Hering
2014-06-26 14:55                     ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-26 14:55                       ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 16:29               ` Greg KH
2014-06-23 18:23                 ` Haiyang Zhang
2014-06-23 20:11                 ` David Miller
2014-06-23 20:11                   ` David Miller
2014-06-23 20:10               ` David Miller
2014-06-23 20:10                 ` David Miller
2014-06-23 20:17                 ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-27 22:36                 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-10-27 22:36                   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-10-28 17:59                   ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-28 17:59                     ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-29 19:09                   ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-29 19:09                     ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-30 10:56                     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-10-30 22:03                       ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-10-30 22:10                         ` Richard Weinberger
2014-06-23 20:06             ` David Miller
2014-06-23 20:06               ` David Miller
2014-06-20  8:41 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-06-20  8:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-06-20 15:48   ` Haiyang Zhang

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