On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:00:04PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 4:14 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > > [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Staging: hv: Allocate the vmbus irq dynamically > > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:55:35AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]> > > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]> > > > Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <[email protected]> > > > > You didn't run this through checkpatch.pl. > > > > Please do so and fix the warning it gives you. > Greg, I did run the checkpatch script against this patch and the only > complaint I got was with regards to the IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag that I > pass. As a virtual machine, this is the only external event that the > VM is going to see and so I chose to keep this flag. Is there > something that would replace this flag; looking at the Xen drivers > they do pass this flag.
But that flag is going away, right? And this really can't be a valid source of entropy as the HV channel is pretty predictable. If you are only using this because Xen does/did it, that's not a valid excuse :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
