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

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Date:	Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:57:11 +0100
From:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@...too.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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

2014/1/19 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:24:10AM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
>> I have submitted a v2 patch - does it look better?
>
> If you mean this:
>
>  include/linux/hyperv.h      | 321 +----------------------------------------
>  include/uapi/linux/Kbuild   |   1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h | 344 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h
>
> you've got the rough idea of uapi headers :-).

Yep, that one, thanks :-)

> Whether that makes sense at all in the hyperv case, you'll have to wait
> for the hyperv guys to say something.
>
> What makes me wonder is why do you need to export this now?

To be able to build the kvp deamon, which has been broken since the
UAPI split a few versions ago.

> Because if those userspace hyperv tools would really need the
> definitions in that header, then they never did build before. Which
> would be really stupid. Btw, which userspace hyperv tools do you mean?
> Where are they?

The tool located in tools/hv.
For some reason, this was never fixed, but now my machines started
complaining in dmesg that the kvp deamon should be updated, so I took
a look at it.

/Bjarke

> What am I missing?
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
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