Re: [PATCH v4 15/15] Drivers: hv: Add modules to expose /dev/mshv to VMMs running on Hyper-V

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 09:13:07PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 08:31:13PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 06:11:19PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 08:11:37AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:01:41AM -0700, Nuno Das Neves wrote:
> > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mshv.h
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,306 @@
> > > > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> > > > 
> > > > Much better.
> > > > 
> > > > > +#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_MSHV_H
> > > > > +#define _UAPI_LINUX_MSHV_H
> > > > > +
> > > > > +/*
> > > > > + * Userspace interface for /dev/mshv
> > > > > + * Microsoft Hypervisor root partition APIs
> > > > > + * NOTE: This API is not yet stable!
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry, that will not work for obvious reasons.
> > > 
> > > This can be removed. For practical purposes, the API has been stable for
> > > the past three years.
> > 
> > Then who wrote this text?
> 
> I don't think this matter, does it? This patch series had been rewritten
> so many times internally to conform to upstream standard it is very
> difficult to track down who wrote this and when.

The point is someone wrote this for a good reason so figuring out why
that was done would be good for you all to do as maybe it is true!

> If you have concrete concerns about removing the text, please let me
> know.

You need to verify that the comment is not true before removing it,
otherwise you all will have a very hard time in the future when things
change...

thanks,

greg k-h