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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
