netdev - Re: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:27:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	decui@...rosoft.com
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
	vkuznets@...hat.com, cavery@...hat.com, kys@...rosoft.com,
	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, joe@...ches.com, rolf.neugebauer@...ker.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 01:58:31 +0000

> Not sure if you had a chance to review this version.

Why me?

Other people have to review this too.

> Now I have a question: may I split the include/linux/socket.h change
> and ask you to pre-allocate the number for AF_HYPERV to allow
> backporting of Hyper-V Sockets to distro kernels, and to make sure
> that applications using the socket type will work with the backport
> as well as the upstream kernel?

Sorry, I'm not going to do this.

You cannot commit anything in userspace to this value anywhere
until it is accepted upstream.