-----Original Message-----
From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@alien8.de]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:30 AM
To: KY Srinivasan
Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org);
devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the
drivers/staging/ directory)

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:11:47AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

quoted

As I noted earlier, this is just a guest ID that needs to be
registered with the hypervisor. Thanks for reporting this issue and
on behalf of Microsoft, I would like to apologize for this offensive
string. I have submitted a patch to fix this issue.

Ok, quick question:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/hardware/ff542653%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

says that that guest ID encodes a bunch of version numbers and IDs
pertaining to the guest OS. And in that case, I would've thought
you'd encode kernel versions or whatever like it is done with
LINUX_VERSION_CODE, for example.

How does this define fit with that scheme or was it chosen completely
arbitrarily?

From what I know, this constant was chosen I think, completely arbitrarily.
Currently, the hypervisor does not interpret this, however the host partition
can retrieve it. 

Regards,

K. Y