From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jake Oshins <jakeo@microsoft.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
"olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
Mike Ebersol <Michael.Ebersol@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"bhelgaas@google.com" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:14:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612161405.GA15911@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM2PR0301MB12323CC0C1132A7F71C79DD3ABBB0@DM2PR0301MB1232.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:11:14PM +0000, Jake Oshins wrote:
> This driver is intended to support both full PCI Express device pass through and also be the basis for SR-IOV networking on top of Hyper-V. These functions would allow somebody trying to make their NIC driver work on top of Hyper-V to exchange messages with their back-end Windows driver.
>
> My question is this. How does somebody delivering a platform usually work with the Linux community to deliver enablement code like this? I'm trying to work in the open, and go upstream early (or at least I think that understand what these things mean.) If the community doesn't want functions that have no callers (and I understand that, too) then how should I provide them to the NIC vendors?
You add the functions in a patch series along with the NIC driver that
uses it. We don't add functions with no callers, sorry.
hope this helps,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-12 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-11 16:22 [PATCH 0/6] Front-end driver for PCIe Pass-through on Hyper-V jakeo
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] drivers:hv: Modify vmbus to search for all MMIO ranges available jakeo
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] drivers:hv: Move MMIO range picking from hyper_fb.mod to hv_vmbus.mod jakeo
2015-06-11 17:46 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] arch:x86:hv: Add mechanism for Hyper-V paravirt drivers to hook msi message creation jakeo
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] drivers:hv: Export a function that maps Linux proc num onto Hyper-V proc num jakeo
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] drivers:hv: Define the channel type for Hyper-V PCI Express pass-through jakeo
2015-06-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs jakeo
2015-06-11 17:46 ` Greg KH
2015-06-12 8:44 ` Paul Bolle
2015-06-12 15:11 ` Jake Oshins
2015-06-12 15:11 ` Jake Oshins
2015-06-12 16:14 ` gregkh [this message]
2015-06-11 17:47 ` [PATCH 0/6] Front-end driver for PCIe Pass-through on Hyper-V Greg KH
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