On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:00:04PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 4:14 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Staging: hv: Allocate the vmbus irq dynamically > > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:55:35AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > You didn't run this through checkpatch.pl. > > > > Please do so and fix the warning it gives you. > Greg, I did run the checkpatch script against this patch and the only > complaint I got was with regards to the IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag that I > pass. As a virtual machine, this is the only external event that the > VM is going to see and so I chose to keep this flag. Is there > something that would replace this flag; looking at the Xen drivers > they do pass this flag. But that flag is going away, right? And this really can't be a valid source of entropy as the HV channel is pretty predictable. If you are only using this because Xen does/did it, that's not a valid excuse :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
