From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752670Ab2KKV7f (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:59:35 -0500 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:49321 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000Ab2KKV7e (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:59:34 -0500 Message-ID: <50A01FB1.1080502@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:59:13 -0500 From: Sasha Levin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121024 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Zhang CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming References: <854640502.31217031.1352140335740.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <854640502.31217031.1352140335740.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/05/2012 01:32 PM, George Zhang wrote: > Sasha, > There is a 'brief' implementation notes aboutVSOCK protocol family > in af_vsock.c. More about user space layer socket programming is from > VMCI Socket Programming Guide. (remove crosstalk@vmware.com for email bouncing). > thanks, > George So all the documentation I see in the VMCI Socket Programming Guide is about userspace programming, and the documentation in af_vsock.c is all around implementation considerations. Is there anything that documents the actual protocol? Just for example, whats the deal with REQUEST/REQUEST2? it appears like something to deal with legacy code, but I'd really like to have it documented somewhere instead of trying to figure how everything works by looking at the code. Thanks, Sasha