Virtualization - Nov 2010 - [PATCH 1/3]: An implementation of HyperV KVP functionality

From: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan at novell.com>
Subject: Reserve a connector index for implementing HyperV Key Value Pair
(KVP) functionality.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan at novell.com>

Index: linux.trees.git/include/linux/connector.h
==================================================================---
linux.trees.git.orig/include/linux/connector.h	2010-11-15 06:50:30.000000000
-0500
+++ linux.trees.git/include/linux/connector.h	2010-11-15 07:00:52.000000000
-0500
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@
 #define CN_VAL_DM_USERSPACE_LOG		0x1
 #define CN_IDX_DRBD			0x8
 #define CN_VAL_DRBD			0x1
+#define CN_KVP_IDX			0x9	/* HyperV KVP */
 
-#define CN_NETLINK_USERS		8
+#define CN_NETLINK_USERS		9
 
 /*
  * Maximum connector's message size.

This patch is re-based on the latest linux-next tree.

From: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan at novell.com>
Subject: Reserve a connector index for implementing HyperV Key Value Pair
(KVP) functionality.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan at novell.com>

Index: linux.trees.git/include/linux/connector.h
==================================================================---
linux.trees.git.orig/include/linux/connector.h	2010-11-05 16:45:32.000000000
-0400
+++ linux.trees.git/include/linux/connector.h	2010-12-07 06:58:34.000000000
-0500
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@
 #define CN_VAL_DM_USERSPACE_LOG		0x1
 #define CN_IDX_DRBD			0x8
 #define CN_VAL_DRBD			0x1
+#define CN_KVP_IDX			0x9	/* HyperV KVP */
 
-#define CN_NETLINK_USERS		8
+#define CN_NETLINK_USERS		9
 
 /*
  * Maximum connector's message size.


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On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 02:31:47PM -0700, Ky Srinivasan (ksrinivasan at
novell.com) wrote:
> > Care to fix this, and address the connector issues, and then resend
them
> > all?
> 
> Evgeniy  has acked the patch for adding a new connector index for
implementing the KVP functionality. The concern Evgeniy had  was with regards to
the code currently in the upstream tree and Hank is planning to submit a patch
to fix that issue.
Connector is ok, but rest of the code looks wrong sometimes,
so please resumbit the whole series with proper descriptions
and subject lines.

Thank you.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov