RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface

2019-08-16 Thread Haiyang Zhang
org; era...@mellanox.com; lorenzo.pieral...@arm.com; > bhelg...@google.com; linux-...@vger.kernel.org; linux- > hyp...@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for > software backchannel interface > > Haiyan

RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface

2019-08-16 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Haiyang Zhang writes: > > The pci_hyperv can only be loaded on VMs on Hyper-V and Azure. Other > drivers like MLX5e will have symbolic dependency of pci_hyperv if they > use functions exported by pci_hyperv. This dependency will cause other > drivers fail to load on other platforms, like VMs o

RE: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface

2019-08-16 Thread Haiyang Zhang
x-...@vger.kernel.org; linux-hyp...@vger.kernel.org; > net...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Haiyang Zhang ; KY Srinivasan > ; Stephen Hemminger ; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for > software backchannel interface

Re: [PATCH net-next, 2/6] PCI: hv: Add a Hyper-V PCI mini driver for software backchannel interface

2019-08-16 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Haiyang Zhang writes: > This mini driver is a helper driver allows other drivers to > have a common interface with the Hyper-V PCI frontend driver. > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed > --- > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > drivers/pci/Kconfig