linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Adding hyperv.h to uapi headers

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Message-ID: <20140118223308.GH15466@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:33:08 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@...too.org>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding hyperv.h to uapi headers

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:24:53PM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
> I should take all the parts the is not guarded by __KERNEL__, and move
> them to a uapi header, and then include it at the top of the normal
> header. Correct understood? :)

Yes, that's basically the approach but be conservative - export only
stuff which *really* is needed by userspace. And hyperv people should
sanity-check what you're exporting because once it is out, it is cast in
stone and there's no changing.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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