RE: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

2016-12-06 Thread KY Srinivasan 


> -Original Message-
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:54 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan 
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org;
> o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com; vkuzn...@redhat.com;
> jasow...@redhat.com; leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com; Haiyang Zhang
> 
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
> is a vmbus dev
> 
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, k...@exchange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: Haiyang Zhang 
> >
> > On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> > interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> > address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> > association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> > association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> > the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> > to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> >
> > This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> > interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> > submitted first.
> 
> As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
> one...

Thanks Greg; we will send you the patches.

K. Y
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

RE: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

2016-12-06 Thread KY Srinivasan 


> -Original Message-
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:54 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan 
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org;
> o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com; vkuzn...@redhat.com;
> jasow...@redhat.com; leann.ogasaw...@canonical.com; Haiyang Zhang
> 
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device
> is a vmbus dev
> 
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, k...@exchange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: Haiyang Zhang 
> >
> > On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> > interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> > address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> > association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> > association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> > the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> > to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> >
> > This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> > interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> > submitted first.
> 
> As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
> one...

Thanks Greg; we will send you the patches.

K. Y
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

2016-12-06 Thread Greg KH 
On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, k...@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang 
> 
> On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> 
> This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> submitted first.

As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
one...

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

2016-12-06 Thread Greg KH 
On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, k...@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang 
> 
> On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> 
> This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> submitted first.

As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
one...

thanks,

greg k-h