Messages in this thread | | | From | Dexuan Cui <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets | Date | Tue, 5 Jul 2016 06:46:24 +0000 |
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> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 14:27 > To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets > > From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 01:58:31 +0000 > > > Not sure if you had a chance to review this version. > > Why me? I just think you're the most responsive reviewer. :-)
> Other people have to review this too. Sure. Let me try to ask more people to review this.
> > Now I have a question: may I split the include/linux/socket.h change > > and ask you to pre-allocate the number for AF_HYPERV to allow > > backporting of Hyper-V Sockets to distro kernels, and to make sure > > that applications using the socket type will work with the backport > > as well as the upstream kernel? > > Sorry, I'm not going to do this. > > You cannot commit anything in userspace to this value anywhere > until it is accepted upstream. Got it. Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks, -- Dexuan
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