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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Hashir Abdi <habdi@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:39:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303233958.GA16513@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212EE39C0@TK5EX14MBXC116.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:42:27PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
> The ring buffer in the Hyper-V Linux drivers is used to communicate with the 
> parent partition running Server 2008 Hyper-V. The ring buffer functionality on 
> the Hyper-V Linux drivers is written to be functionally compatible with" the 
> ring buffer functionality on the Hyper-V Server. Consequently, it is not 
> possible to make any changes that might break the compatibility with server 
> side ring buffer implementation.  

Ok, that makes sense, feel free to remove that TODO item.

thanks for looking into this.

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17 20:58 [PATCH 1/1] Stage: hv: Rename struct device_context and re-arrange the fields inside (re-formatted) Haiyang Zhang
2010-02-17 21:05 ` Greg KH
2010-02-17 23:50 ` Greg KH
2010-02-17 23:52 ` Greg KH
2010-02-18 15:51   ` Haiyang Zhang
2010-03-03 16:42   ` Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers Hank Janssen
2010-03-03 17:49     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-03 23:39     ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-04 17:46 ` [PATCH 1/1] Stage: hv: Remove Ringbuffer from TODO line Hank Janssen
2010-03-04 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] Stage: hv: Corrected all header comments to follow kernel-doc format Hank Janssen
2010-03-04 17:55   ` Joe Perches
2010-03-04 18:03   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-04 18:11     ` Hank Janssen
2010-03-04 22:11 ` [PATCH 1/1] Stage: hv: Corrected all header comments to follow kernel-doc format-CORRECTED Hank Janssen
2010-03-04 22:37   ` Randy Dunlap

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