Re: [virtio] [PATCH] virtio header: tweak change motivation

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:41:59 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> wrote:

> The changes are not just to remove Linux assumptions,
> we have also renamed ring->queue.
> Tweak the header description accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>
> ---
> 
> I'll commit this under the trivial changes rule.
> 
>  content.tex | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index 5b8a22c..38e9e43 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ helper routines in a more usable form, in
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h. This was explicitly licensed by IBM
>  and Red Hat under the (3-clause) BSD license so that it can be
>  freely used by all other projects, and is reproduced (with slight
> -variation to remove Linux assumptions) in \ref{sec:virtio-ring.h}~\nameref{sec:virtio-ring.h}.
> +variation) in \ref{sec:virtio-ring.h}~\nameref{sec:virtio-ring.h}.
> 
>  \chapter{General Initialization And Device Operation}\label{sec:General Initialization And Device Operation}

Do you want to rebase this on top of the virtio-ring.h ->
virtio-queue.h renaming patch, or the other way around? Either way,

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <>