Re: Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 03 2010 - 18:40:14 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:42:27PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
> The ring buffer in the Hyper-V Linux drivers is used to communicate with the
> parent partition running Server 2008 Hyper-V. The ring buffer functionality on
> the Hyper-V Linux drivers is written to be functionally compatible with" the
> ring buffer functionality on the Hyper-V Server. Consequently, it is not
> possible to make any changes that might break the compatibility with server
> side ring buffer implementation.

Ok, that makes sense, feel free to remove that TODO item.

thanks for looking into this.

greg k-h
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