RE: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-09-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > On Tue, Aug 30, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > In my test system, the IDE drives are now discovered twice, once by > > > > hv_storvsc and once by libata: > > > > > > This is a known (old problem). The wa

RE: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-09-01 Thread KY Srinivasan
:49 AM > > > To: KY Srinivasan > > > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > > > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH /0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 27, K. Y

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-09-01 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Aug 30, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:04:34PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > In my test system, the IDE drives are now discovered twice, once by > > > > > hv_storvsc and once by libata: > > > > > > > > This is a known (old problem

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Aug 30, Greg KH wrote: > > > In my test system, the IDE drives are now discovered twice, once by > > > hv_storvsc and once by libata: > > > > This is a known (old problem). The way this was handled earlier was to have > > the > > modprobe rules in place to setup a dependency that would

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Aug 27, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > 2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. I have modified > the implementation here based on Christoph's feedback on my earlier > implementation. The upgrade path from hv_blkvsc to hv_storvsc is difficult. hv_storvsc d

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:04:34PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > In my test system, the IDE drives are now discovered twice, once by > > > > hv_storvsc and once by libata: > > > > > > This is a known (old problem). The way this was handled earlier was to >

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread Greg KH
rg; > > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH /0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup > > > > On Sat, Aug 27, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > 2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. I have modi

RE: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:15 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0000/0046

RE: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-31 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:o...@aepfle.de] > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:49 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0

Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-29 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:31:14AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Further cleanup of the hv drivers. > > 1) Cleanup reference counting. > > 2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. I have modified > the implementation here based on Christoph's feedback on my e

[PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

2011-08-27 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
Further cleanup of the hv drivers. 1) Cleanup reference counting. 2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. I have modified the implementation here based on Christoph's feedback on my earlier implementation. 3) Fix bugs. 4) Acco