Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:14:05 -0700 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs |
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:11:14PM +0000, Jake Oshins wrote: > This driver is intended to support both full PCI Express device pass through and also be the basis for SR-IOV networking on top of Hyper-V. These functions would allow somebody trying to make their NIC driver work on top of Hyper-V to exchange messages with their back-end Windows driver. > > My question is this. How does somebody delivering a platform usually work with the Linux community to deliver enablement code like this? I'm trying to work in the open, and go upstream early (or at least I think that understand what these things mean.) If the community doesn't want functions that have no callers (and I understand that, too) then how should I provide them to the NIC vendors?
You add the functions in a patch series along with the NIC driver that uses it. We don't add functions with no callers, sorry.
hope this helps,
greg k-h
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