Stephen/James/David, Greetings to you all. As you might be aware, we submitted Hyper-V drivers to the kernel 2009. We have been extending these drivers with additional functionality and our primary focus now is doing the work needed to exit the staging area. To give you some background, the following are Hyper-V specific Linux drivers: hv_vmbus The vmbus driver that is the bridge between guest and the host hv_storvsc The SCSI device driver hv_blkvsc The IDE driver hv_netvsc The network driver We think our drivers are pretty close to be reviewed by the subsystem maintainers. We have been working with Greg on hv_vmbus, and several other driver issues as it relates to exiting staging. And now we are looking for guidance for the other drivers. 1. Most important thing of course, did we contact the correct subsystem maintainers? i. IDE/Blkvsc David Miller ii. SCSI/Storvsc James Bottomley iii. Network/Netvsc Stephen Hemminger 2. What is the process to submit the code for review? 3. Which mailing list(s) do we need to use for the code reviews 4. I assume normal patch format is required? 5. What additional information is needed 6. Once they leave staging where do they need to go? Because they all pretty much come as a package we were thinking drivers/hyperv might be a good place. There are still a few outstanding items we are currently working on. But they should be wrapped up shortly. (There are a few remaining FIXME comments in the code we are cleaning up as I write this). But if possible we would like to get your feedback even as we are addressing the issues we currently know about. Thanks Hank. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
