Re: [PATCH 1/2] Hyperv detection - code cleanup

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/19/2010 08:51 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 10:12 AM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>    
> > From: K. Y. Srinivasan<ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Code cleanup - consolidate all hyperv related definitions into one
> > header file.
> >
> >      
> How will this affect KVM?  I was under the impression that this was
> separated out as a constants-only header file for a reason.
>
>    

It's exported, so any types need to be compatible with userspace (i.e. 
__u32).

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