linux-kernel - Re: Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers

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Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:39:58 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Hashir Abdi <habdi@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers

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
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