Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-11 Thread Ky Srinivasan
On 5/10/2010 at 1:21 PM, in message 20100510172125.ga1...@kroah.com, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:05:02PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM - Hank Janssen On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: I am

RE: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-10 Thread Hank Janssen
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM - Hank Janssen On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus. hv_vmbus does have the same DMI detection logic in it. But unless hv_vmbus has loaded

Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-10 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:05:02PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM - Hank Janssen On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus. hv_vmbus does have

RE: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-08 Thread Hank Janssen
From: Ky Srinivasan [ksriniva...@novell.com] - Friday, May 07, 2010 4:52 PM I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc. I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus. hv_vmbus does have the same DMI detection logic in it. But unless hv_vmbus has

Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-08 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: From: Ky Srinivasan [ksriniva...@novell.com] - Friday, May 07, 2010 4:52 PM I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc. I am not sure if this is the right approach. hv_netvsc takes a dependency on hv_vmbus. hv_vmbus

Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-07 Thread Ky Srinivasan
I am attaching a patch to auto-load hv_netvsc. Regards, K. Y From: K. Y. Srinivasan ksriniva...@novell.com Subject: Auto-load the hyperV PV net driver. References: None Patch-mainline: Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan ksriniva...@novell.com Index: linux/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c