RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Negotiate version 3.0 when running on ws2012r2 hosts

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:17 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: jslaby@xxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Negotiate version 3.0 when
> running on ws2012r2 hosts
> 
> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 03:14:42PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Only ws2012r2 hosts support the ability to reconnect to the host on
> VMBUS.
> > This functionality is needed by kexec in Linux. To use this
> > functionality we need to negotiate version 3.0 of the VMBUS protocol.
> >
> > This was committed upstream:
> > commit 03367ef5ea811475187a0732aada068919e14d61
> >
> > This patch has been backported to apply against the 3.12 stable tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>        [3.9+]
> 
> As you say this is needed in 3.10-stable as well, I've taken this version for it.
> If that's not correct, please let me know.

Thanks Greg. This is fine. 

K. Y
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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