Re: [PATCH 00/16] Staging: hv: Consolidate driver and device abstractions

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:45:15PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > I'm guessing that you will have follow-on patches now to complete the
> > migration to the correct driver core use (i.e. proper driver and device
> > usage?)  Or do you want me to look into doing this?
> 
> My immediate goal is to get the vmbus driver to exit staging. To that
> end I am working on a patch-set to cleanup vmbus_drv.c. I should have this
> patch-set fairly soon.  Once that is
> done, I think we would have addressed all the structural/architectural issues
> of the vmbus driver that is preventing us from exiting staging. 

Well, perhaps, let's not get ahead of ourselves here :)

> We are planning to address the issues with other drivers after we are done
> with the vmbus driver. As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

The issue I am referring to above still has to do with the vmbus core.

The goal is to have the vmbus work like all other busses in the kernel.
You register a hv_driver with some probe and disconnect callbacks, and
the vmbus calls into the drivers when it needs to.

You are almost there, using the struct device pointers directly, but a
few more steps remain.

I'll look into the details after your remaining cleanups, I don't want
to get in the way of them.

thanks,

greg k-h