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diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
index 898eac9e8c13..f636f91f104b 100644
--- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -990,6 +990,20 @@ extern void vmbus_ontimer(unsigned long data);
struct hv_driver {
const char *name;
+ /*
+ * A hvsock offer, which has a VMBUS_CHANNEL_TLNPI_PROVIDER_OFFER
+ * channel flag, actually doesn't mean a synthetic device because the
+ * offer's if_type/if_instance can change for every new hvsock
+ * connection.
+ *
+ * However, to facilitate the notification of new-offer/rescind-offer
+ * from vmbus driver to hvsock driver, we can handle hvsock offer as
+ * a special vmbus device, and hence we need the below flag to
+ * indicate if the driver is the hvsock driver or not: we need to
+ * specially treat the hvosck offer & driver in vmbus_match().
+ */
+ bool hvsock;
+
/* the device type supported by this driver */
uuid_le dev_type;
const struct hv_vmbus_device_id *id_table;