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RE: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 5:44 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com; vkuznets@redhat.com;
> jasowang@redhat.com; leann.ogasawara@canonical.com; Stephen
> Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI
> 
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:41:47AM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> >
> > In commit 9a56e5d6a0ba ("Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent")
> > the name of vmbus devices in sysfs changed to be (in 4.9-rc1):
> >   /sys/bus/vmbus/vmbus-6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b
> >
> > The prefix ("vmbus-") is redundant and differs from how PCI is
> > represented in sysfs. Therefore simplify to:
> >   /sys/bus/vmbus/6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b
> >
> > Please merge this before 4.9 is released and the old format
> > has to live forever.
> 
> Why have you included this in a patchset that will not get merged until
> 4.10-rc1???
> 
> You want this in 4.9, right?
> 
> confused,

Sorry about that; I will send this separately.

K. Y
> 
> greg k-h

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  [PATCH 15/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: On the read path cleanup the logic to interrupt the host kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 03/15] Drivers: hv: utils: Fix the mapping between host version and protocol to use kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 10/15] tools: hv: fix a compile warning in snprintf kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-10-31 13:50 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-10-31 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 06/15] Drivers: hv: vss: Improve log messages. kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 04/15] Drivers: hv: balloon: Disable hot add when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 11/15] tools: hv: remove unnecessary header files and netlink related code kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 07/15] Drivers: hv: vss: Operation timeouts should match host expectation kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH 08/15] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix info request to show max page count kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 14/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: On write cleanup the logic to interrupt the host kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 13/15] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Base host signaling strictly on the ring state kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-10-31 07:10 +0100
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