On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 03:06:14PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:49 AM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/206] Staging: hv: Cleanup hv drivers > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:56:34AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > This is a resend of the patches sent on May 9, 2011. Per Greg's > > > suggestion, I have include additional context to the Subject line > > > where there was some ambiguity. > > > > > > This patch-set deals with some of the architectural isues in all of > > > the Hyper-V drivers. Specifically: > > > > They finally all came through now, or at least I think they all did. > > > > Please fix your email system to not swallow them for 8+ hours in the > > future, this really isn't an acceptable way of doing work. > > > > > 1) Fixes a number of locking issues in the block driver. > > > > > > 2) Eliminates all the indirection through the hv_driver > > > abstraction. > > > > > > 3) Simplifies the code across the board eliminating > > > unnecessary code and data structure layering. Prior to > > > this restructuring there were about 11,000 lines of code > > > in the hv directory. After this cleanup, there are about > > > 8500 lines of code. > > > > That's great, remember how many lines were at the beginning? I think it > > was over 40000 or so, but I could be wrong, I should go and dig up the > > original code dump from so long ago to be sure... > > > > > 4) I have dealt with style and naming issues across all the drivers. > > > > > > 5) All the header files have been cleaned up and consolidated: > > > 1) A single header file include/linux/hyperv.h. This file > > > is to be included in all the drivers that attach to the > > > vmbus. > > > > Woah, no. You can't move out of the drivers/staging/hv/ directory yet, > > sorry. I'll go through and review and try to apply these patches but > > will probably stop when you do this file movement, sorry. I'll let you > > know how far I get when I do this. > > My mistake Greg; I was under the impression that this is what you wanted. > Do you want me to move this file back to the hv directory; I will have to re-spin > all the patches after that. Let me know if I should go ahead and do that. No, let me start going through what you have sent already, I don't want your poor email server to crash again by you having to resend them so quickly :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
