Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Jan 08 2013 - 20:41:35 EST


On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 05:30:56 PM David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:21:10 -0800
>
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:59:08PM -0800, George Zhang wrote:
> >> * * *
> >>
> >> This series of VSOCK linux upstreaming patches include latest udpate from
> >> VMware to address Greg's and all other's code review comments.
> >
> > Dave, you acked these patches a while ago,
>
> Really? I'd like to see where I did that.
>
> Instead, what I remember doing was deferring to the feedback these
> folks received, stating that ideas that the virtio people had
> mentioned should be considered instead.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=135301515818462&w=2

I believe Andy replied to Anthony's AF_VMCHANNEL post and the differences
between the proposed solutions.

>
> So definitely NACK this code and any infrastructure you've
> merged which essentialy depends upon it.

No, there is no infrastructure that depends on VSOCK, as VSOCK is built
on top of VMCI, not the other way around.

Thanks,
Dmitry

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