[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: kvp: Copy the address family information

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:03 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: apw at canonical.com; devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de;
> ben at decadent.org.uk; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: kvp: Copy the address family information
> 
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:36:30PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:57 PM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org;
> olaf at aepfle.de;
> > > apw at canonical.com; ben at decadent.org.uk
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: kvp: Copy the address family
> information
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:20:19PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > Copy the address family information.
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > This is part of the IP injection protocol in that the host expects this field to
> reflect what addresses
> > (address families) are currently bound to the interface. The KVP daemon is
> currently collecting this
> > Information and sending it to the kernel component. I had overlooked copying
> this and sending it
> > back to the host. This patch addresses this issue.
> 
> That's nice and descriptive, any reason you didn't put it in the patch
> changelog section the first time?
> 
> Please redo this...

Will do.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> greg k-h
> 
>