Re: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets

[David Miller]

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 01:58:31 +0000

> Not sure if you had a chance to review this version.

Why me?

Other people have to review this too.

> 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.