RE: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

[KY Srinivasan]

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> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:54 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; leann.ogasawara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
> is a vmbus dev
> 
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> > interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> > address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> > association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> > association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> > the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> > to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> >
> > This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> > interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> > submitted first.
> 
> As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
> one...

Thanks Greg; we will send you the patches.

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