On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:11:14PM +0000, Jake Oshins wrote:
> This driver is intended to support both full PCI Express device pass through 
> and also be the basis for SR-IOV networking on top of Hyper-V.  These 
> functions would allow somebody trying to make their NIC driver work on top of 
> Hyper-V to exchange messages with their back-end Windows driver.
> 
> My question is this.  How does somebody delivering a platform usually work 
> with the Linux community to deliver enablement code like this?  I'm trying to 
> work in the open, and go upstream early (or at least I think that understand 
> what these things mean.)  If the community doesn't want functions that have 
> no callers (and I understand that, too) then how should I provide them to the 
> NIC vendors?

You add the functions in a patch series along with the NIC driver that
uses it.  We don't add functions with no callers, sorry.

hope this helps,

greg k-h
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