Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before messages | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:22:54 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:38 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gregkh@suse.de; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization@lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang > Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before > messages > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:06:39PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:31:36AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > Conform to Windows specification by checking for events before messages. > > > > > > What specification? > > > > > > Care to provide a comment in the code that you are doing this in this > > > explicit order because of some rule that the hypervisor imposes on us? > > > > I am not sure if this is documented anywhere (publicly). In talking to Windows > > guys, they suggested this is the order in which it is done on Windows guests > and suggested > > I should do the same. I will see if there is some public documentation that > specifies this. > > All you need to do is just document it in the code and I'll be happy. > We don't rely on external documentation for things to be changed, in > fact, there usually isn't any such thing :)
Ok; will do.
Regards,
K. Y
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