From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [patch 00/54] [Announce] Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for Linux Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:59:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20090720165941.GA15660@redhat.com> References: <20090720160025.GA20249@kroah.com> <20090720162810.GA22102@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090720162810.GA22102@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Hank Janssen , Haiyang Zhang , Sam Ramji , shemminger@linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:28:10AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:00:25AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm happy to announce, that after many months of discussions, Microsoft > > has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers under the GPLv2. Following > > this message, will be the patches that add the drivers to the > > drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of cleanups. > > Hm, for some reason my scripts to send patches out caused them to get > eaten by the very good lkml filters. (note, it was my fault, not > lkml's). > > So instead of trying to send them again, and spaming everyone who > already got them, you can find them in my staging tree at: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-staging/ > > If anyone wants me to post any of the individual 54 patches to them, > please let me know. Given the numerous cleanup patches that already exist, is there any reason to not just post the cleaned up drivers ? It would certainly be more reviewable than the current pile. Come to think of it, is there any value in merging the pre-cleaned up patches ? Why merge 54 patches to mainline when a half dozen will do ? Dave