Ringbuffer usage in Linux Hyper-V drivers

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Mar 3 23:39:58 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:42:27PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
> The ring buffer in the Hyper-V Linux drivers is used to communicate with the 
> parent partition running Server 2008 Hyper-V. The ring buffer functionality on 
> the Hyper-V Linux drivers is written to be functionally compatible with" the 
> ring buffer functionality on the Hyper-V Server. Consequently, it is not 
> possible to make any changes that might break the compatibility with server 
> side ring buffer implementation.  

Ok, that makes sense, feel free to remove that TODO item.

thanks for looking into this.

greg k-h



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