From: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] net: Add support for NTB virtual ethernet device
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:13:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121116011353.GK24723@jonmason-lab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121116003043.GC20876@kroah.com>
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:30:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:11:09PM -0700, Jon Mason wrote:
> > A virtual ethernet device that uses the NTB transport API to
> > send/receive data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > drivers/net/Kconfig | 4 +
> > drivers/net/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/net/ntb_netdev.c | 415 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> As I haven't taken the core yet, I can't take this. But even then, I
> would need an ack from the network maintainers before I could.
I have been Cc'ing netdev on these patches and gotten many good
comments, but I can cc Dave Miller explicitly on my next version (as
there will obviously need to be one based on your comments on the
previous patch).
>
> And are you sure this is in the correct location in the tree?
I assumed that the virtual network client that uses NTB as a transport
would best fit in the network drivers. Is this a bad assumption?
Thanks,
Jon
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-06 0:11 [PATCH v5 0/2] PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge Support Jon Mason
2012-11-06 0:11 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] " Jon Mason
2012-11-16 0:29 ` Greg KH
2012-11-16 1:06 ` Jon Mason
2012-11-16 1:18 ` Greg KH
2012-11-16 0:29 ` Greg KH
2012-11-06 0:11 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] net: Add support for NTB virtual ethernet device Jon Mason
2012-11-16 0:30 ` Greg KH
2012-11-16 1:13 ` Jon Mason [this message]
2012-11-16 1:26 ` Greg KH
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