On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:30:07PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > > 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 That's what the MAINTAINERS file says, right? > 2. What is the process to submit the code for review? Like Documentation/SubmittingPatches shows, send patches. > 3. Which mailing list(s) do we need to use for the code reviews Again, MAINTAINERS shows this. > 4. I assume normal patch format is required? Yes. > 5. What additional information is needed What's normally 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. That's up to the subsystem, if they want all network drivers in drivers/net/ then they go there, same for scsi, it's up to the maintainer. > 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. I would wait and only ask for review _after_ you fix the things you know about first. Otherwise it just wastes everyone's time. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
