From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= Subject: Re: 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:59:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87fw8mlv7e.fsf@nemi.mork.no> References: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E048081EB789@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20111004170415.GA1320@suse.de> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E048081EB86F@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20111004193414.GA15672@suse.de> <4FFFF711.8040003@redhat.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF923547292@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120719210709.GA32031@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9235475EE@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120719220142.GA1513@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF923547620@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20120719232832.GA6317@kroah.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9235476BC@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF9235476BC@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (KY Srinivasan's message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:41:37 +0000") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: KY Srinivasan Cc: "Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)" , Paolo Bonzini , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org KY Srinivasan writes: > Here is the link that describes how the guest ID should be composed: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542653%28v= =3Dvs.85%29.aspx The unwanted value does not conform to those rules: Linux is not yet a= t major version 0xB5. I propose that you change this into a macro actually taking the OS major/minor version into account, keeping the 0xB16B vendor ID (which seems safest as the vendor ID registration process seems a bit unclear)= =20 Bj=C3=B8rn