> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:38 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang > Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before > messages > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:06:39PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:31:36AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > Conform to Windows specification by checking for events before messages. > > > > > > What specification? > > > > > > Care to provide a comment in the code that you are doing this in this > > > explicit order because of some rule that the hypervisor imposes on us? > > > > I am not sure if this is documented anywhere (publicly). In talking to Windows > > guys, they suggested this is the order in which it is done on Windows guests > and suggested > > I should do the same. I will see if there is some public documentation that > specifies this. > > All you need to do is just document it in the code and I'll be happy. > We don't rely on external documentation for things to be changed, in > fact, there usually isn't any such thing :) Ok; will do. Regards, K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
