Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:30:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp |
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to > implement the mechanism to get/set IP addresses in the guest. This > functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM > replication functionality. The way IP configuration information > is managed is distro specific. The current implementation supports > RedHat way of doing things. We will expand support to other distros > incrementally. > So there is going to be a continuous flow of patches to add support for new distros (Arch Linux, Slackware, Linux Mint, SuSE, Debian, etc etc) and if different versions of a distro handles things differently then you are also going to deal with that? Might be fine, but it just sounds a bit scary to me to try to support m different distros, each in n different versions from the kernel... Couldn't this somehow be done once and for all in a distro neutral way? Just asking :-)
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