> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:25 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Christoph Hellwig; gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang; > Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD) > Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/49] Staging: hv: storvsc: Add a DMI signature to support > auto-loading > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:19:06PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Thanks Greg. Can you give me some pointers here as to what needs to be > > done here. Looking at the code for virtio, it looks like I would need to add stuff > > to scripts/mod/file2alias.c as well as to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h. Will > you > > accept patches for these files to support an ID space for Hyper-V vmbus drivers. > > Yes, I will take patches for those files to implement this. > > Along with those files, you also need a way to tell userspace that new > UIDS are found before the individual drivers are loaded. Hopefully you > can do that now, but if not, it will need to be implemented. Could you elaborate on what user level changes I will have to do. Thanks, K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
