Re: [PATCH] Adding hyperv.h to uapi headers

From: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
Date: Sat Jan 18 2014 - 18:00:44 EST


2014/1/18 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:24:53PM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
>> I should take all the parts the is not guarded by __KERNEL__, and move
>> them to a uapi header, and then include it at the top of the normal
>> header. Correct understood? :)
>
> Yes, that's basically the approach but be conservative - export only
> stuff which *really* is needed by userspace. And hyperv people should
> sanity-check what you're exporting because once it is out, it is cast in
> stone and there's no changing.
>
Okay - I'll take a look at it, and post a v2 patch in a moment.
>From what I can see, it looks like the userspace parts are all logical
to have exported (quite a few of them are using by the kvp tool, and
the rest makes sense AFAICS).

/Bjarke
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