RE: vmbus driver

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:27 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: vmbus driver
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:06:25PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > A few days ago you applied all the outstanding patches for the Hyper-V
> > drivers. With these patches, I have addressed all of the known review
> > comments for the  vmbus driver (and a lot of comments/issues in other
> > drivers as well). I am still hoping I can address
> > whatever other issues/comments there might be with the intention to
> > get the vmbus driver out of staging in the current window. What is your
> > sense in terms of how feasible this is. From my side, I can assure you
> > that I will address all legitimate issues in a very timely manner and this
> > will not be dependent upon the location of the drivers (staging or
> > outside staging). Looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> There's no point in merging it without a user.  Make sure either
> the network or storage driver is in a good enough shape to move with it,
> to make sure the APIs it exports are actually sanely usable.
> 
> On the other hand the HV clocksource looks mostly mergeable and doesn't
> depend on vmbus.  Send a patch to add it to drivers/clocksource to the
> maintainer and it should be mergeable with very little remaining
> cleanup.

I see maintainers for each of the clocksource drivers and I see John Stultz and
Thomas  Gleixner listed as the maintainers for Timekeeping. Who should sign-off
on the Hyper-V clocksource.

Regards,

K. Y

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