Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965834Ab0BZTR0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:17:26 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:46598 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965789Ab0BZTRZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:17:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:16:44 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Hank Janssen , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Problem with auto-detecting a HV environment from within Linux Message-ID: <20100226191644.GA18182@kroah.com> References: <20100225164436.GA3310@kroah.com> <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725B6A4277@TK5EX14MBXC130.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100225173611.GA14124@kroah.com> <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725B6A5633@TK5EX14MBXC130.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100225230639.GB20900@kroah.com> <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725B6A5806@TK5EX14MBXC130.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100226004646.GA31483@kroah.com> <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212EDCD14@TK5EX14MBXC116.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100226025721.GA10310@kroah.com> <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725B6A6D15@TK5EX14MBXC130.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF725B6A6D15@TK5EX14MBXC130.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 30 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:07:14PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:57 PM > > In looking at the second patch again, I think you will need to put some > > spaces in the DMI strings to get it to match up properly. Look at what > > the files in: > > /sys/class/dmi/id/ > > look like exactly to get it to line up. The module id stuff strips > > spaces out, so I can't get the real value there. > > Thanks for your help! I have applied the two patches -- auto loading > of hv_vmbus works fine after a space was inserted into the DMI strings > ("Microsoft Corporation", "Virtual Machine"). Great, I'll add a space and then queue them up for the merge window. > Also, according to our Hyper-V team, we have no plan to change the > virtual VGA card id and DMI info. That's good to know, but if it changes in the future, we can trivially add new device ids. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/