linux-kernel - Re: Hyper-V TODO file

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Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:03:29 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...izon.net>,
	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Hyper-V TODO file

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:17:19PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@...ah.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:31 PM
> > To: Peter Foley
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan; gregkh@...e.de; Linux Kernel Mailing List;
> > devel@...uxdriverproject.org; virtualization@...ts.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
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