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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] VMCI: device driver implementaton.
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:21:43 -0700
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:04:15PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> +/*
> + * vmci_get_context_id() - Gets the current context ID.
> + *
> + * Returns the current context ID.  Note that since this is accessed only
> + * from code running in the host, this always returns the host context ID.
> + */
> +u32 vmci_get_context_id(void)
> +{
> +	if (vmci_guest_code_active()) {
> +		return vmci_get_vm_context_id();
> +	} else if (vmci_host_code_active()) {
> +		return VMCI_HOST_CONTEXT_ID;
> +	} else {
> +		return VMCI_INVALID_ID;
> +	}
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmci_get_context_id);

checkpatch didn't complain about too many { } here?

> +/*
> + * vmci_version() - Returns the version of the driver.
> + *
> + * Returns the version of the VMCI driver.
> + */
> +u32 vmci_version(void)
> +{
> +	return VMCI_VERSION;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmci_version);

Why is this needed?  Why would a kernel driver ever care about this?

thanks,

greg k-h