Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] drivers/virt: vmgenid: add vm generation id driver

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> +The ``vmgenid`` driver uses ACPI events to be notified by hardware
> +changes to the 128-bit Vm Gen Id UUID.

That's ok, problem is ACPI event processing is asynchronous.
What we need is thus to flush out ACPI events whenever userspace
does a read, otherwise the value it gets will be stale.

-- 
MST




[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux