> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 14:27 > To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets > > 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? I just think you're the most responsive reviewer. :-) > Other people have to review this too. Sure. Let me try to ask more people to review this. > > 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. Got it. Thanks for the explanation! Thanks, -- Dexuan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
