From: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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        "jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
        "leann.ogasawara@canonical.com" <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
 is a vmbus dev
Thread-Topic: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:58:13 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:54 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; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
> is a vmbus dev
> 
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, kys@exchange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> >
> > On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> > interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> > address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> > association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> > association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> > the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> > to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> >
> > This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> > interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> > submitted first.
> 
> As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
> one...

Thanks Greg; we will send you the patches.

K. Y
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h