From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 12:07:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20110501160721.GA8195@infradead.org> References: <1303834785-4981-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20110426232843.GA31184@kroah.com> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DD185@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110427064550.GA597@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DD266@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110427121856.GA20633@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DD676@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20110429164025.GA7698@kroah.com> <20110501154041.GB15210@infradead.org> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF253@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481DF253@TK5EX14MBXC124.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:46:23PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > What is the issue here? This is no different than what is done in other > Virtualization platforms. For instance, the Xen blkfront driver is no > different - if you specify the block device to be presented to the guest > as an ide device, it will register for the appropriate ide major number. No, it won't - at least not in mainline just because it's so buggy. If distros keep that crap around I can only recommed you to not use them.