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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.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 13:06:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF444A9.6090709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF43256.1090004@redhat.com>

On 05/19/2010 11:47 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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).
> 

... and certainly no prototypes for kernel-only functionality.
Right, that's what I thought.  So NAK on this patch, too.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 20:06 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
2010-05-19 20:06     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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