Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] x86/hyper-v: move hyperv.h out of uapi

From: Joshua R. Poulson
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 12:43:11 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 03:02:43PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> hyperv.h is not part of uapi, there are no (known) users outside of kernel.
>> We are making changes to this file to match current Hyper-V TLFS and we
>> don't want to maintain backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Move the file renaming to hyperv-tlfs.h to avoid confusing it with
>> mshyperv.h. In future, all definitions from TLFS should go to it and
>> all kernel objects should go to mshyperv.h or include/linux/hyperv.h.
>
> What is TLFS? And hows does it differe from mshyperv.h?

The TLFS is the "Top-Level Functional Specification" for Hyper-V.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/tlfs