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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andrew Stiegmann <astiegmann@...are.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@...are.com,
	vm-crosstalk@...are.com, cschamp@...are.com
Subject: Re: [vmw_vmci 11/11] Apply the header code to make VMCI build



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg KH" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> To: "Andrew Stiegmann" <astiegmann@...are.com>
> Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
> pv-drivers@...are.com, vm-crosstalk@...are.com, cschamp@...are.com
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 11:16:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [vmw_vmci 11/11] Apply the header code to make VMCI build
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:20:43AM -0700, Andrew Stiegmann wrote:
> > > The kernel style is to use lower_case for everything.
> > > So this would become:
> > > 
> > >     vmci_device_get()
> > > 
> > > This is obviously a very general comment and applies everywhere.
> > 
> > I wish I could lower case these symbols but VMCI has already
> > existed
> > outside the mainline Linux tree for some time now and changing
> > these
> > exported symbols would mean that other drivers that depend on VMCI
> > (vSock, vmhgfs) would need to change as well.   One thought that
> > did
> > come to mind was exporting both VMCI_Device_Get and vmci_device_get
> > but that would likely just confuse people.  So in short I have made
> > function names lower case where possible, but exported symbols
> > could
> > not be changed.
> 
> Not true at all.  You want those drivers to be merged as well, right?
> So they will need to have their functions changed, and their code as
> well.

As previously mentioned VMware is working on upstreaming our vSock driver (one of a few drivers that uses vmw_vmci).  However there are no plans to upstream the other drivers that depend on vmw_vmci.  Because of this these symbols can not change.

> Just wait until we get to the "change your functionality around"
> requests, those will require those drivers to change.  Right now we
> are
> at the "silly and obvious things you did wrong" stage of the review
> process :)
>
> So please fix these, and also, post these drivers as well, so we can
> see
> how they interact with the core code.
> 
> Actually, if you are going to need lots of refactoring for these
> drivers, and the core, I would recommend putting this all in the
> staging
> tree, to allow that to happen over time.  That would ensure that your
> users keep having working systems, and let you modify the interfaces
> better and easier, than having to keep it all out-of-tree.
> 
> What do you think?

We will discuss this internally and let you know.
 
> greg k-h
> 
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