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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>,
	"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Hyper-V TODO file
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:03:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110902160329.GA4682@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E048081B5FA3@TK5EX14MBXC126.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:17:19PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:31 PM
> > To: Peter Foley
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan; gregkh@suse.de; Linux Kernel Mailing List;
> > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization@lists.osdl.org
> > Subject: Re: Hyper-V TODO file
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:11:39PM -0400, Peter Foley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > Greg, as I have been pestering you for some time now, we are very
> > interested in
> > > > exiting staging and we are willing to dedicate the necessary development
> > > > resources to address whatever issues that may still be pending. So, your help
> > > > in identifying what needs to be done will be greatly appreciated. To that end,
> > > > I think it will be useful to update the TODO file to reflect the current state of
> > > > the drivers. Let us know how we should proceed here.
> > >
> > > An issue I've come across in the hyper-v drivers is the forced modular
> > > build. You might want to see if the "depends on m" is still needed.
> > 
> > Ah, good point, KY, can you try this out and see if that can be changed?
> > If not, something is wrong and that needs to get fixed.
> 
> Just verified that we can build into the kernel (not as modules) all hyper-V
> drivers except hv_storvsc. hv_storvsc depends upon functionality that in my build 
> is being built as modules (SCSI etc.) and this is the reason why I could not build
> hv_storvsc as part of the kernel.

So 'make allyesconfig' with the module dependancy turned off doesn't
break the build?  If so, great.

> Greg, do you want me to submit a patch to Kconfig, getting rid of the module
> dependency (for hyperv-v drivers).

Yes please.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-02 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-31 22:16 Hyper-V TODO file K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-08-31 23:11 ` Peter Foley
2011-09-01 20:31   ` Greg KH
2011-09-02 14:09     ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-02 15:17     ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-02 16:03       ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-01 20:27 ` Greg KH
2011-09-01 20:30   ` Greg KH
2011-09-01 21:08     ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-02 16:09     ` Greg KH
2011-09-02 19:47     ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-02 19:58       ` Greg KH
2011-09-02 20:54         ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-01 20:57   ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-22 16:17 K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-09-22 16:05 ` Joe Perches
2011-09-22 17:04 ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 17:20   ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-22 17:36     ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 18:22       ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-04 13:59       ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-04 17:04         ` Greg KH
2011-10-04 17:23           ` KY Srinivasan

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