From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933684Ab1ETNWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 09:22:24 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55205 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933252Ab1ETNWW (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 09:22:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:22:20 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" Subject: Re: vmbus driver Message-ID: <20110520132220.GA23390@infradead.org> References: <1305842785-30206-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20110520122649.GA550@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481FC2AF@TK5EX14MBXC122.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481FC2AF@TK5EX14MBXC122.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:12:32PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Well, the util driver that implements a range of other services such as KVP, > time synch, heartbeat etc. is also a client of the vmbus driver (perhaps not in the The KVP driver is a different module as far as I can see. But it really needs a lot of work, as no one should use the ugly connector interface for new code. The closest equivalent is gennetlink, but I'd like to understand what it's actually supposed to do in practice.