From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: vscsi 2TB patches Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:55:38 +0000 Message-ID: <4D2342FA020000780002A387@vpn.id2.novell.com> References: <4D222D71.9020508@list.ims.co.at><20110103230621.GP2754@reaktio.net><4D230357.3070604@list.ims.co.at><4D231647020000780002A2EE@vpn.id2.novell.com><4D231A46.2000209@list.ims.co.at><4D232ADB020000780002A33B@vpn.id2.novell.com><4D2321DE.9030706@list.ims.co.at><4D233968020000780002A36E@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D2332D3.3010105@list.ims.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D2332D3.3010105@list.ims.co.at> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: pasik@iki.fi, Samuel Kvasnica Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 04.01.11 at 15:46, Samuel Kvasnica = wrote: > On 01/04/2011 03:14 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> If it is reasonably applicable to the 2.6.18 kernel, we prefer getting >> it through that tree. Second choice would be to get it through the >> pv-ops one, pointing us to the relevant commits. Third choice (we >> actually did so only very few times thus far, and we're going to be >> reluctant to take anything that could go through either of the >> earlier paths) is to give us the patch on top of our HEAD/master >> tree, accompanied by sufficient information on what the change >> does and how was tested (so we can judge how likely regressions >> from the patch might be). > Jan: but if I understood Pasi, he claims there are no pvscsi drivers > included in the pv-ops tree at all > because it was not ported so far. > But your opensuse pv-ops kernel definitely includes pvscsi drivers - > does this part exist only in > suse kernel tree ? Again - we derive out code from the 2.6.18 tree, which has pvscsi drrivers. Above I just gave a general description, not all of which would always (read: here) apply. Jan