Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/virt: vm_gen_counter: initial driver implementation

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Feb 25 2018 - 07:47:57 EST


On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Or Idgar wrote:
> From: Or Idgar <oridgar@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch is a driver which expose the Virtual Machine Generation ID
> via sysfs. The ID is a UUID value used to differentiate between virtual
> machines.
>
> The VM-Generation ID is a feature defined by Microsoft (paper:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260709) and supported by multiple
> hypervisor vendors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Or Idgar <oridgar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor | 13 +++
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 6 ++
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/vmgenid.c | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 160 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/vmgenid.c

What changed from v1? Always put that below the --- line like
Documentation/SubmittingPatches describes how to do.

v3?

thanks,

greg k-h