From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751965Ab2GSPaT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:30:19 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:48914 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031Ab2GSPaQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:30:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:30:15 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Paolo Bonzini , "Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" Subject: Re: 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory) Message-ID: <20120719153014.GA13235@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , KY Srinivasan , Paolo Bonzini , "Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" References: <1316708240-25048-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20110922170450.GA4490@suse.de> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E048081E935D@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110922173618.GA5624@suse.de> <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF923547292@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:11:47AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > As I noted earlier, this is just a guest ID that needs to be > registered with the hypervisor. Thanks for reporting this issue and > on behalf of Microsoft, I would like to apologize for this offensive > string. I have submitted a patch to fix this issue. Ok, quick question: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542653%28v=vs.85%29.aspx says that that guest ID encodes a bunch of version numbers and IDs pertaining to the guest OS. And in that case, I would've thought you'd encode kernel versions or whatever like it is done with LINUX_VERSION_CODE, for example. How does this define fit with that scheme or was it chosen completely arbitrarily? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.