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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/15] hyperv: more stuff to uapi + cleanup
    [ Sorry for such a slow reply; flu and office relocation knocked me out
    for a while ]

    On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 06:00:17PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Roman Kagan [mailto:rkagan@virtuozzo.com]
    > > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 7:56 AM
    > > Subject: [PATCH 00/15] hyperv: more stuff to uapi + cleanup
    > >
    > > Expose more Hyper-V-related definitions in the uapi header for
    > > consumption by userspace.
    > >
    > > While doing so, get rid of a number of duplications between the KVM and
    > > the guest driver code. Also a few other cleanups are made which are not
    > > strictly necessary for the main purpose of the series but appear
    > > reasonable to do at the same time.
    > >
    > > The most controversial is the last patch which modifies the stuff
    > > already published in the uapi header, in the hope that no userspace
    > > applications have started relying on it; I'm ok dropping it if this is
    > > unacceptable.
    >
    > First, let me thank you. Broadly, this patch-set can be broken into
    > 1. Moving existing definitions around - (to make it possible to share these
    > between Hyper-V guest drivers and KVM)
    > 2. Cleanup of the existing code in the VMBUS driver (under drivers/hv).

    Right. Another significant part of the series is, where two sets of
    definitions exist for the same entity, consolidate on the one that looks
    more Linux-style, usually the one in the (currently) uapi header.

    > To the extent possible, I want to take all non-KVM code through Greg's tree.
    > We can then modify the KVM code to use these common definitions.

    Well, this patchset touches almost no KVM code, so we're fine here I
    think.

    > Currently, I too am working on restructuring VMBUS driver code to
    > fully isolate all x86 dependencies. I can work with you on
    > integration as I too am moving things around.

    Great! Do you want me to rebase on some your public tree? (Once I
    split the patches as you requested, of course)?

    Thanks,
    Roman.

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