From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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>,
Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Add a DMI signature to support auto-loading
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:12:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110606231259.GA18222@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307400613-13234-12-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:49:36PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> To support auto-loading the storvsc driver, add a DMI signature.
The storvsc driver is not a DMI driver, but a vmbus driver. As such it
should have a vmbus table that is used for autoloading, not a dmi one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-06 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-06 22:49 [PATCH 00/49] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 01/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: In vmbus_child_driver_unregister() don't set the bus field to NULL K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 02/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Cleanup the exit function in storvsc_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 03/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Cleanup the module init " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 04/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Fix a bug in the storvsc_remove() function K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 05/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Cleanup some dated/unnecessary comments K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 06/49] Staging: hv: stor: Get rid of unnecessary DPRINTs in stor vsc_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 07/49] Staging: hv: stor: Rename the vriable gStorVscDeviceType in storvsc_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 08/49] Staging: hv: stor: Get rid of the unused initialization of the name field K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 09/49] Staging: hv: blk: " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 10/49] Staging: hv: mouse: " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 11/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Don't free the channel when the channel is closed K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 12/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Add a DMI signature to support auto-loading K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 23:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-07 14:54 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 18:58 ` Greg KH
2011-06-07 22:19 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 22:24 ` Greg KH
2011-06-08 2:44 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-08 16:22 ` Greg KH
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 13/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Change the signature of vmbus_bus_init() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 14/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Use the DSDT specified irq for vmbus K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 15/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Make vmbus an acpi bus driver K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-07 20:44 ` Greg KH
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 16/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of vmbus_acpi_init() by inlining the code K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 17/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of vmbus_acpi_exit() " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 18/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Add the DSDT _HID name as well K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 19/49] Staging: hv: blkvsc: Fix bugs in the module unload path K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 20/49] Staging: hv: blkvsc: We don't support removable media; get rid of unnecessary state K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 21/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the timer based handling of channel events K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 22/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the call to dump channel state in channel event handler K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 23/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Directly invoke the channel callback K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 24/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the unused wrapper - vmbus_onchannel_event() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-07 14:59 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 18:58 ` Greg KH
2011-06-07 19:58 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 20:09 ` Greg KH
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 25/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of unneeded calls to dump_vmbus_channel K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 26/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the poll timer in the channel state K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 27/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Fix the memory barrier in hv_ringbuffer_read() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 28/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Introduce read dependency in hv_get_ringbuffer_availbytes() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 29/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Change the memory barrier in hv_ringbuffer_write() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 30/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the unused function vmbus_ontimer() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 31/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of some dated comments in channel.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 32/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Correct " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 33/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Move the definition of struct vmbus_channel K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 34/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Embed the state needed to close the channel K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:49 ` [PATCH 35/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Use the newly introduced state in closing " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 36/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of a dated comment in vmbus_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 37/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of an unused function in connection.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 38/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of a dated comment in channel_mgmt.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 39/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Fix a memory barrier call in vmbus_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 40/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Rename local variables " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 41/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Increase the timeout for some critical calls K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 42/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Properly handle memory allocation failure in channel.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 43/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup some error codes in vmbus_drv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 44/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup error handling in vmbus_bus_init() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 45/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup error codes in hv.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 46/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup error codes in connection.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 47/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup some error values in channel.c K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 48/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Change Cleanup to cleanup " K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 49/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Increase the timeout value in vmbus_request_offers() K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-06-07 20:45 ` Greg KH
2011-06-07 21:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 21:28 ` Greg KH
2011-06-07 21:39 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-06-07 20:48 ` [PATCH 00/49] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup Greg KH
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