Re: [PATCH 00/49] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 16:54:01 EST


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:49:00PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Further cleanup of the hv drivers:
>
> 1) Continue to cleanup our drivers to conform to the Linux Driver
> Model.
>
> 2) Fix some long standing bugs with regards to unloading and
> reloading the drivers - block, net and stor.
>
> 3) VMBUS is an ACPI enumerated device; make VMBUS an ACPI bus driver.

Ok, if that's the way the bus really is, it's good to get rid of the pci
code.

> 4) Get rid of channel polling code; instead the channel receive paths
> will be purely interrupt drive.
>
> 5) Cleanup error return values in the vmbus driver and general cleanup.
>
> 6) Fix memory barrier calls in the ring buffer code.
>
> 7) Increase the timeout values for some critical guest to host calls.

I applied all of these but the last one.

For the last patch, please provide more information about it. Should it
also go to older kernel releases to resolve issues found there?

thanks,

greg k-h
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