From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
greg@kroah.com, hjanssen@microsoft.com, mingo@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Hyperv detection - code cleanup
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:47:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF43256.1090004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF4252E.6090609@zytor.com>
On 05/19/2010 08:51 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 10:12 AM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>
>> From: K. Y. Srinivasan<ksrinivasan@novell.com>
>> Subject: Code cleanup - consolidate all hyperv related definitions into one
>> header file.
>>
>>
> How will this affect KVM? I was under the impression that this was
> separated out as a constants-only header file for a reason.
>
>
It's exported, so any types need to be compatible with userspace (i.e.
__u32).
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 17:12 [PATCH 1/2] Hyperv detection - code cleanup Ky Srinivasan
2010-05-19 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 18:18 ` Ky Srinivasan
2010-05-19 18:47 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-05-19 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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