Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759874Ab2FUXa7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:59 -0400 Received: from swampdragon.chaosbits.net ([90.184.90.115]:12676 "EHLO swampdragon.chaosbits.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759600Ab2FUXa6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:30:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Juhl To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, ohering@suse.com, apw@canonical.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp In-Reply-To: <1340314200-27078-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Message-ID: References: <1340314200-27078-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 29 On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to > implement the mechanism to get/set IP addresses in the guest. This > functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM > replication functionality. The way IP configuration information > is managed is distro specific. The current implementation supports > RedHat way of doing things. We will expand support to other distros > incrementally. > So there is going to be a continuous flow of patches to add support for new distros (Arch Linux, Slackware, Linux Mint, SuSE, Debian, etc etc) and if different versions of a distro handles things differently then you are also going to deal with that? Might be fine, but it just sounds a bit scary to me to try to support m different distros, each in n different versions from the kernel... Couldn't this somehow be done once and for all in a distro neutral way? Just asking :-) -- Jesper Juhl http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- 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/