Re: [PATCH 12/15] hyperv: move VMBus connection ids to uapi

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/01/2017 20:39, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to minimize what we include in the uapi header; especially when MSFT has made no guarantees
>>> with regards how  they may be evolved. I will also work on getting some clarity on both stability and
>>> under what license we would expose the uapi header.  
>> Am I correct assuming that QEMU is currently the only user of
>> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/hyperv.h?
>>
>> Then I think we're fine withdrawing it from uapi as a whole and letting
>> QEMU pull it in through its header-harvesting scripts (as does now
>> anyway).  This would lift all licensing and longterm API stability
>> expectations.
>
> Thanks, that prevents lots of problems.
> That is how I handle iproute2 as well.

Except it wouldn't work.  But no big deal, I guess we'll just
synchronize hyperv.h manually. :((

Paolo