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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 20:20:12 +0000
From:   Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@...rosoft.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
CC:     KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Boqun Feng <Boqun.Feng@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <liuwe@...rosoft.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "\"H. Peter Anvin\"" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] Hyper-V: pci: x64: Generalize irq/msi
 set-up and handling

> There seems to be a long tradition of dreaming up random formats for
> the subject lines of Hyper-V-related patches.  Look at all the
> different ways these are spelled, hyphenated, and capitalized:
> 
I am reading this as a suggestion to unify the format of the subject of
the Hyper-V patches. Wei and other maintainers of the Hyper-V branch; do
you have any suggestions? If we have already defined a format and it is me
who is not following it, please forward the document my way.

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 05:05:36AM +0000, Sunil Muthuswamy wrote:
> > Currently, operations related to irq/msi in Hyper-V vPCI are
> 
> In comments in the patch, you use "IRQ" and "MSI".  I don't know
> whether "vPCI" means something or is a typo.  I suppose it probably
> means "virtual PCI" as below.
> 

Yes, vPCI here means virtual PCI.