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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Mike Sterling <mike.sterling@microsoft.com>,
	Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup irq management
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:19:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110405041950.GB8090@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300226624-27004-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:03:34PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Now that vmbus_driver is a  pci driver,
> cleanup the irq allocation mess by using the standard
> irq allocation mechanisms.
> 
> Note that this patch generates an error when the checkpatch
> script is run because of the IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag used in
> request_irq() function. This interrupt may be the only
> external event this VM will get and consequently if this
> flag (IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM) is not  specified, experimentally
> we have shown that the entropy in the VM will very very low.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Sterling <mike.sterling@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c |   28 +++++++++++++---------------
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 3d2789b..239b91c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
>   * Authors:
>   *   Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
>   *   Hank Janssen  <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
> + *
> + * 3/9/2011: K. Y. Srinivasan	- Significant restructuring and cleanup

Changelog comments never belong in the file itself.  If you consider
yourself an author of the file now, then put your name in it with the
others.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15 22:02 [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03 ` [PATCH 01/12] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a pci driver K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03   ` [PATCH 02/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup root device handling K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03     ` [PATCH 03/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup irq management K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03       ` [PATCH 04/12] Staging: hv: Rename vmbus_driver_context structure K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03         ` [PATCH 05/12] Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_uevent K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03           ` [PATCH 05/12] Staging: hv: " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03             ` [PATCH 06/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_match K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03               ` [PATCH 07/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_probe K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03                 ` [PATCH 08/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_remove K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03                   ` [PATCH 09/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_shutdown K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03                     ` [PATCH 10/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_device_release K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03                       ` [PATCH 11/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_isr K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:03                         ` [PATCH 12/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_show_device_attr K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:22             ` [PATCH 05/12] Staging: hv: Get rid of the forward declaration for vmbus_uevent Greg KH
2011-03-15 22:23               ` Greg KH
2011-03-15 22:39               ` KY Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:51                 ` Greg KH
2011-04-05  4:22         ` [PATCH 04/12] Staging: hv: Rename vmbus_driver_context structure Greg KH
2011-04-05  4:19       ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-04-05  4:16   ` [PATCH 01/12] Staging: hv: Make vmbus driver a pci driver Greg KH
2011-03-15 22:04 ` [PATCH 00/12] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver - Phase II Greg KH
2011-03-15 22:24   ` KY Srinivasan
2011-03-15 22:30     ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 21:39   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-03-17 21:45     ` Greg KH
2011-03-17 22:58       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-04-16  0:34     ` Greg KH

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