From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754482Ab1H2SFv (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:05:51 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:45805 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754182Ab1H2SFt (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:05:49 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: XuLCzDP4RZjWp3L5evCAafWvPu1mcSQDOLQfH7FDi20M 1314641148 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:05:11 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Haiyang Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before messages Message-ID: <20110829180511.GA7167@kroah.com> References: <1314469874-7017-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1314469905-7058-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1314469905-7058-37-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1314469905-7058-37-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:31:36AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Conform to Windows specification by checking for events before messages. What specification? Care to provide a comment in the code that you are doing this in this explicit order because of some rule that the hypervisor imposes on us? thanks, greg k-h