Ack: [PATCH 0/3] Hyper-V KVP daemon

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Fri Apr 6 21:37:01 UTC 2012


On 04/06/2012 10:52 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> The Hyper-V hypervisor communicates with the guest OS via the hv_kvp
> kernel module.  This in turn communicates with a userspace daemon which
> is responsible to storing various pieces of configuration information
> and responding to requests for OS specific version information.
> 
> The hv_hvp_daemon is tightly coupled with the kernel hv_kvp driver
> and shipped with the kernel source.  It therefore makes sense
> to include this daemon with the other version locked programs, in
> the linux-tools package.
> 
> Following this email are three patches to add this daemon to the
> linux-tools and linux-tools-common packages.  The first adds basic build
> infrastructure, the second adds a skeletal manual page, and the last adds
> the tool to the appropriate build phases.
> 
> Proposing for Precise.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (3):
>   tools/hv: add basic Makefile
>   tools/hv: add basic manual pages
>   UBUNTU: Hyper-V KVP daemon -- add to the tools package
> 
>  debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk  |    4 ++++
>  debian/rules.d/3-binary-indep.mk |    4 ++++
>  debian/tools/generic             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  tools/hv/Makefile                |    7 +++++++
>  tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.8         |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 debian/tools/generic
>  create mode 100644 tools/hv/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.8
> 


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