Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Device tree support for Hyper-V VMBus driver

2023-02-07 Thread Rob Herring
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:10 PM Saurabh Sengar > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This set of patches expands the VMBus driver to include device tree > > > > > support. > > > > > > > > > > The first tw

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Device tree support for Hyper-V VMBus driver

2023-02-01 Thread Rob Herring
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 06:04:49PM -0800, Saurabh Singh Sengar wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 02:27:51PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:10 PM Saurabh Sengar > > wrote: > > > > > > This set of patches expands the VMBus driver to

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Staging: hv: vmbus: Driver cleanup

2011-08-23 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 03:10:10PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Further cleanup of the vmbus driver: > > 1) Cleanup the interrupt handler by inlining some code. > > 2) Ensure message handling is performed on the same CPU that > takes the vmbus interr

[PATCH 0/8] Staging: hv: vmbus: Driver cleanup

2011-08-15 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Further cleanup of the vmbus driver: 1) Cleanup the interrupt handler by inlining some code. 2) Ensure message handling is performed on the same CPU that takes the vmbus interrupt. 3) Check for events before messages (from the host). 4) Disable auto

[PATCH 01/77] Staging: hv: vmbus: Increase the timeout value in the vmbus driver

2011-06-16 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
On some loaded windows hosts, we have discovered that the host may not respond to guest requests within the specified time (one second) as evidenced by the guest timing out. Fix this problem by increasing the timeout to 5 seconds. It may be useful to apply this patch to the 3.0 kernel as well.

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-23 Thread KY Srinivasan
zat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: RE: vmbus driver > > On Mon, 23 May 2011, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > I am working on getting Hyper-V drivers (drivers/staging/hv/*) out of > > staging. > > I would like to request you to look at the Hyper-V timesource driver: > > drive

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 23 May 2011, KY Srinivasan wrote: > I am working on getting Hyper-V drivers (drivers/staging/hv/*) out of staging. > I would like to request you to look at the Hyper-V timesource driver: > drivers/staging/hv/hv_timesource.c. The supporting code for this driver > is already part of the base

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-23 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:00 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Christoph Hellwig; gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org &g

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-22 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:00 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Christoph Hellwig; gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org &g

Re: vmbus driver

2011-05-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> I see maintainers for each of the clocksource drivers and I see John Stultz > and > Thomas Gleixner listed as the maintainers for Timekeeping. Who should > sign-off > on the Hyper-V clocksource. just send it to both of the with linux-kernel in Cc, and either of them will probably put it in.

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread KY Srinivasan
t; Subject: Re: vmbus driver > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:12:32PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Well, the util driver that implements a range of other services such as KVP, > > time synch, heartbeat etc. is also a client of the vmbus driver (perhaps > > not in > the >

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:27 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: vmb

Re: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:12:32PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Well, the util driver that implements a range of other services such as KVP, > time synch, heartbeat etc. is also a client of the vmbus driver (perhaps not > in the The KVP driver is a different module as far as I can

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:05 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: vmbus driver > &

RE: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:27 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: vmb

Re: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:06:25PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > Greg, > > A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V > drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review > comments for the vmbus driver (and a lot of commen

Re: vmbus driver

2011-05-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:06:25PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V > drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review > comments for the vmbus driver (and a lot of comments/issues in other >

vmbus driver

2011-05-19 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Greg, A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review comments for the vmbus driver (and a lot of comments/issues in other drivers as well). I am still hoping I can address whatever other issues

[PATCH 184/206] Staging: hv: Include the new header files in vmbus driver

2011-05-10 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Include the new header files in vmbus driver. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen --- drivers/staging/hv/channel.c |6 +++--- drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c |7 +++ drivers/staging/hv

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-02 Thread KY Srinivasan
ect: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:16:36PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular > > > distributions. > > > > > As long as you can prevent ata_

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:16:36PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular > > distributions. > > > As long as you can prevent ata_piix from loading, it should be fine. Again, this might very well be built in, e.g. take a look at: http://

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-02 Thread KY Srinivasan
.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:48:38PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > By setting up appropriate modprobe rules, this can be addressed. > > That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:48:38PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > By setting up appropriate modprobe rules, this can be addressed. That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular distributions. ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualiza

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-02 Thread KY Srinivasan
ect: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:08:37PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Could you elaborate on the problems/issues when the block driver registers > > for > the > > IDE majors. On the Qemu side, we have a mechanis

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:08:37PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Could you elaborate on the problems/issues when the block driver registers > for the > IDE majors. On the Qemu side, we have a mechanism to disable the emulation > when > PV drivers load. I don't think there is an equivalent mecha

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:56:58PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Yeah, it seems to me that no matter how the user specifies the disk > > "type" for the guest configuration, we should use the same Linux driver, > > with the same naming scheme for both ways. > > > > As Christoph points out, it's j

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
[PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:39:21AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:32:35PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > On the host-side, as part of configuring a guest you can specify block

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:46:23PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > What is the issue here? This is no different than what is done in other > > Virtualization platforms. For instance, the Xen blkfr

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:46:23PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > What is the issue here? This is no different than what is done in other > Virtualization platforms. For instance, the Xen blkfront driver is no > different - if you specify the block device to be presented to the guest > as an ide dev

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:39:21AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:32:35PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On the host-side, as part of configuring a guest you can specify block > > devices > > as being under an IDE controller or under a > > SCSI controller. Those are

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
ts.osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:40:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Are you sure the libata core can't see this ide controller and connect > > to it? That way you would use the scsi system if yo

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:40:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Are you sure the libata core can't see this ide controller and connect > to it? That way you would use the scsi system if you do that and you > would need a much smaller ide driver, perhaps being able to merge it > with your scsi driver. >

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:32:35PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > On the host-side, as part of configuring a guest you can specify block > devices > as being under an IDE controller or under a > SCSI controller. Those are the only options you have. Devices configured under > the IDE controller can

[RESEND] [PATCH 00/18] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
driver. I recently learnt that the vmbus driver is an acpi enumerated device on the Hyper-V platform. Added code to retrieve irq information from DSDT. Regards, K. Y ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread KY Srinivasan
ect: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:32:35PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 27

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread Greg KH
g KH; gre...@suse.de; > > linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47:03AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > O

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread KY Srinivasan
osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47:03AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On the host side, Windows emulates the standard PC hardware > > to permit hosting of fully virtualized operating systems.

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:26:13PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Perhaps I did not properly formulate my question here. The review > process itself may be open-ended, and that is fine - we will fix all > legitimate > issues/concerns in our drivers whether they are in the staging area or not. > M

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-29 Thread KY Srinivasan
Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:54:02AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > After that, do you want another round of review of the code, or do > > > you have more things you want to send in (like the name[64] removal?) > > > &

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
> advance of the next closing of the tree, with the hope of taking the > vmbus driver out of staging this go around (hope springs eternal in > the human breast ...)! Yes, it would be nice, and I understand your the corporate pressures you are under to get this done, and I am doing my bes

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47:03AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > On the host side, Windows emulates the standard PC hardware > to permit hosting of fully virtualized operating systems. > To enhance disk I/O performance, we support a virtual block driver. > This block driver currently handles disks

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
ect: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:54:02AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > I would prefer that we go through the review process. What is the process > > for > > this review? Is there a time window for people to resp

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
vance of the next closing of > the tree, > with the hope of taking the vmbus driver out of staging this go around (hope > springs > eternal in the human breast ...)! It would be useful if you'd send one driver at a time to the list as the full source to review. Did we ma

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:19:45AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > This patch-set addresses some of the bus/driver model cleanup that > > Greg sugested over the last couple of days. In this patch-set we > > deal with the followi

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:19:45AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patch-set addresses some of the bus/driver model cleanup that > Greg sugested over the last couple of days. In this patch-set we > deal with the following issues: > > 1) Cleanup unnecessary state in struct hv_device an

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-26 Thread Greg KH
linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > > > Do you have a repository containing the current state of your patche > > somewhere? There's been so much

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-26 Thread KY Srinivasan
[PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code > > Do you have a repository containing the current state of your patche > somewhere? There's been so much cleanup that it's hard to review these > patches against the current mainline codebase. Christoph, Yesterday (

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Do you have a repository containing the current state of your patche somewhere? There's been so much cleanup that it's hard to review these patches against the current mainline codebase. ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundati

[PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-26 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
/shutdown functions to struct hv_driver to conform to LDM. 7) On some older Hyper-V hosts, the Linux PCI sub-sytem is not able to allocate irq resources to the vmbus driver. I recently learnt that the vmbus driver is an acpi enumerated device on the Hyper-V

Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 02:15:47AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:18:24PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:07:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > Due to other external issues, my patch backlog is still not gotten > > > > through yet,

RE: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-24 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 8:14 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Greg KH; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver >

Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-24 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:18:24PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:07:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Due to other external issues, my patch backlog is still not gotten > > through yet, sorry. Sometimes "real life" intrudes on the best of > > plans. > > > > I'll get

RE: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-24 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:21 AM > To: Greg KH > Cc: KY Srinivasan; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: Hyper-V vmbus drive

Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-23 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:07:08PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > With that patch-set, I think I have addressed all architectural issues that > > I > > am aware of. > > > > I was wondering if you would have the time to let me know what else would > > have >

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-04-17 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:39:27PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:04:54 PDT, Greg KH said: > > > Thanks for the patches, but as the .39 merge window is closed, I'll be > > holding on to these until after .39-rc1 is out before I can do anything > > with them. > > Is

RE: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-11 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:07 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver > > On

Re: Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 06:46:24PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Greg, > > > > Recently, you applied a patch-set from me that cleaned a bunch of > architectural > issues in the vmbus driver. > > With that patch-set, I think I have addressed all architectural

Hyper-V vmbus driver

2011-04-11 Thread KY Srinivasan
Greg, Recently, you applied a patch-set from me that cleaned a bunch of architectural issues in the vmbus driver. With that patch-set, I think I have addressed all architectural issues that I am aware of. I was wondering if you would have the time to let me know what else would have to be

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a pci driver

2011-04-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:03:32PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Make vmbus driver a pci driver. This is > in preparation to cleaning up the root device > management as well as the irq allocation for this > driver. > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > Signed-off-by: Ha

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:45:37 PDT, Greg KH said: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:39:27PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > Is that Linus's merge window, or your window to freeze a for-linus tree? > > My window. > > Linus's merge window is for the subsystem maintainers. Everything that > is t

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:04:54 PDT, Greg KH said: > Thanks for the patches, but as the .39 merge window is closed, I'll be > holding on to these until after .39-rc1 is out before I can do anything > with them. Is that Linus's merge window, or your window to freeze a for-linus tree? pgpQQcJwkCpIy.

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-17 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:39:27PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:04:54 PDT, Greg KH said: > > > Thanks for the patches, but as the .39 merge window is closed, I'll be > > holding on to these until after .39-rc1 is out before I can do anything > > with them. > > Is

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-15 Thread Greg KH
uxdriverproject.org; > > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:02:07PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver &

RE: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-15 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:05 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv:

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:02:07PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver (vmbus_drv.c): Thanks for the patches, but as the .39 merge window is closed, I'll be holding on to these until after .39-rc1 is out before I can do anyth

[PATCH 01/12] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a pci driver

2011-03-15 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Make vmbus driver a pci driver. This is in preparation to cleaning up the root device management as well as the irq allocation for this driver. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Mike Sterling Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen

[PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II

2011-03-15 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver (vmbus_drv.c): Make vmbus driver a platform pci device and cleanup root device management and irq allocation (patches 1/12 through 3/12): 1) Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver. 2) Cleanup root device management

RE: [PATCH 00/21] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver

2011-03-14 Thread KY Srinivasan
Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:59:42PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver (vmbus_drv.c): > > > > Cleanup root device management: (patches 1/21 through 10/21) > > 1) Get r

Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:08:32PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver. This is > in preparation to cleaning up irq allocation for this > driver. Now wouldn't this be the "root" device that everything else hangs off of? > Sign

Re: [PATCH 00/21] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver

2011-03-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:59:42PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver (vmbus_drv.c): > > Cleanup root device management: (patches 1/21 through 10/21) > 1) Get rid of the hv_driver code from the vmbus abstraction >

RE: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-14 Thread KY Srinivasan
(Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Hank Janssen > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci > driver > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:23:05PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Greg, I have redone this patch as well as [PATCH 12/21]. Do you want > > me

Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-13 Thread Greg KH
is patch-set address all of architectural issues you had > noted earlier in the vmbus core. Please let us know what else needs to > be done to exit staging as far as the vmbus driver is concerned. I > want get a head start before the new week begins! Also, we have > patches ready for all

RE: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-12 Thread KY Srinivasan
(Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Hank Janssen > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci > driver > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:28:27PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Greg KH

RE: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-10 Thread KY Srinivasan
(Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Hank Janssen > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci > driver > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:28:27PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Greg KH

Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-10 Thread Greg KH
uxdriverproject.org; > > virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang; Mike Sterling; Abhishek Kane > > (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Hank Janssen > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci > > driver > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 201

RE: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-10 Thread KY Srinivasan
(Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD); Hank Janssen > Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci > driver > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:08:32PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver. This is > > in preparation to c

Re: [PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:08:32PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver. This is > in preparation to cleaning up irq allocation for this > driver. The idea is nice, but the nameing is a bit confusing. We have "platform drivers" which are

[PATCH 11/21] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver

2011-03-10 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Make vmbus driver a platform pci driver. This is in preparation to cleaning up irq allocation for this driver. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Mike Sterling Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen --- drivers/staging/hv

[PATCH 00/21] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver

2011-03-10 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
This patch-set fixes the following issues in the vmbus driver (vmbus_drv.c): Cleanup root device management: (patches 1/21 through 10/21) 1) Get rid of the hv_driver code from the vmbus abstraction 2) Get rid of unnecessary call sequences and functions 3) Cleanup the

Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant

2010-09-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:53:03PM +, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:44 PM > > > Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant > > > The vmbus interface functi

RE: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant

2010-09-09 Thread Haiyang Zhang
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:44 PM > > Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant > > The vmbus interface functions are assigned to a constant - vmbus_ops. > > You also remove a function pointer in

Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant

2010-09-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:29:45PM +, Haiyang Zhang wrote: > From: Haiyang Zhang > > Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant > The vmbus interface functions are assigned to a constant - vmbus_ops. You also remove a function pointer in this patch, why?

[PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant

2010-09-08 Thread Haiyang Zhang
From: Haiyang Zhang Convert vmbus driver interface function pointer table to constant The vmbus interface functions are assigned to a constant - vmbus_ops. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen --- drivers/staging/hv/TODO|2 -- drivers/staging/hv