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SubjectRE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Explicitly size elements of protocol structures
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:36 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> virtualization@lists.osdl.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com;
> jagrelo@cisco.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Explicitly size elements of protocol
> structures
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:23:20AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Use explicitly sized types in data structures defining the host/guest
> > protocol. I would like to thank Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@cisco.com>
> > for reporting this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
>
> If someone reports a problem, mark it as:
> Reported-by: Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@cisco.com>
> in the signed-off-by: area of the patch.

Will do.
>
> Does this need to go into 3.6, and possibly older kernels? Or can it
> wait for 3.7?

Given the "stable kernel rules", I don't think this needs to go into older kernels.
This can wait for 3.7.

Thanks,

K. Y






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