Staging: hv: Add a user-space daemon to support key/value pair (KVP)
authorKy Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:56:54 +0000 (18:56 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:11:15 +0000 (15:11 -0800)
commitcc04acf53fb1bba1e57b0d34a400ccaf498fc9be
tree821c91f0d6e93fe2f300c57a9db2d0e76eff840f
parent245ba56a52a32536a751cc3e60e5602afcfc5fd9
Staging: hv: Add a user-space daemon to support key/value pair (KVP)

All guest specific data gathering is implemented in a user-mode daemon.
The kernel component of KVP passes the "key" to this daemon and
the daemon is responsible for passing back the corresponding
value. This daemon communicates with the kernel
component via a netlink channel.

Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/hv/tools/hv_kvp_daemon.c [new file with mode: 0644]