RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-10 Thread KY Srinivasan
: various vmbus review comments On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:56:52PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: I will address this. Greg had a concern about module reference counting and looking at the current code, it did not appear to be an issue. The change you are suggesting will not affect the vmbus core

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I must be missing something here. As I look at the block driver (and this is indicative of other drivers as well); the exit routine - blkvsc_drv_exit, first iterates through all the devices it manages and invokes device_unregister() on each of the devices and then invokes

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-10 Thread Greg KH
...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:56:52PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: I will address this. Greg had a concern about module reference counting and looking at the current code, it did not appear

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-09 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 11:05 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments On Mon, May 09

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:10:38PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: I audited the block and the net drivers. As part of their exit routine, they invoke vmbus_child_driver_unregister() after properly cleaning up all the devices they are managing. Do you still see an issue with regards to module

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-09 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:34 AM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Greg KH; gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:56:52PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: I will address this. Greg had a concern about module reference counting and looking at the current code, it did not appear to be an issue. The change you are suggesting will not affect the vmbus core which is what I want to focus

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-08 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: various vmbus review comments I just took a quick

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:46:56AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: - the instances of hv_driver structures need to be static and not programatically defined, like all other USB and PCI drivers are handled. Done. You had expressed some concern that this would expose some issue

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-06 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:10:38PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: No, I am referring to the module reference counting of the bus drivers that register with the vmbus core. You aren't doing that at all, and you probably need to make sure that this isn't needed. That is concentrating on the

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-06 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 11:00 AM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments On Fri, May 06

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-04 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: various vmbus review comments I just took a

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:20:11PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org;

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-04 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:32 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments On Wed, May

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:58:39PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: 2) hyperv_storage.h - this has all the definitions needed to build storage drivers for Hyper-V. Storage drivers will include hyperv.h and hyperv_storage.h. 3) hyperv_net.h - this has all the definitions needed to build

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-03 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: various vmbus review comments I just took a

Re: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-03 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:00:01PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: You had also suggested that I should ask for a community review once you had had applied my last set of patches. Now that you have applied all my patches, should I formally ask for this review? I said something like after my review

RE: various vmbus review comments

2011-05-03 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:04 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: various vmbus review comments On Tue, May 03