From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755418Ab0CCXkL (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:40:11 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54024 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752938Ab0CCXkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:40:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:39:58 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Hank Janssen Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Haiyang Zhang , Hashir Abdi Subject: Re: Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers Message-ID: <20100303233958.GA16513@kroah.com> References: <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725A908A11@TK5EX14MBXC126.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100217235223.GG12197@kroah.com> <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212EE39C0@TK5EX14MBXC116.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212EE39C0@TK5EX14MBXC116.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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