RE: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-07-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
; Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:28:27PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:38:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > Further cleanup of the hv drivers: > > > > > > &g

RE: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-07-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:19:38 + > KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemmin...@vyatta.com] > > > Sent: Thu

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-07-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:28:27PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:38:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Further cleanup of the hv drivers: > > > > > > 1) Cleanup the reference counting mess for both stor and net devices. > > > > I really don't understand the ne

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
erproject.org; gre...@suse.de; linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:32:34 + > > KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > &g

RE: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread KY Srinivasan
.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:32:34 + > KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > > > Sent: Thursday, June

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
> > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:38:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Further cleanup of the hv drivers: > > > &

RE: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:34 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PAT

RE: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:34 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re:

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:38:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Further cleanup of the hv drivers: > > 1) Cleanup the reference counting mess for both stor and net devices. I really don't understand the need for reference counting on the storage side, especially now that you only have a

[PATCH 00/40] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-06-29 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Further cleanup of the hv drivers: 1) Cleanup the reference counting mess for both stor and net devices. 2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. 3) Accomodate some host side scsi emulation bugs. 4) In case of scsi errors off-line the devic