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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:58:00 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	Tina Yang <tina.yang@...cle.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gurudas.pai@...cle.com" <gurudas.pai@...cle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netconsole support for xen-netfront

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 18:24 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

> Ok, so let me update the git commit description to include this.
> 
> I am listed as the maintainer but I would have thought that it should
> go through David?

Generally folks listed as specific network driver maintainers are
sub-maintainers under David, so the flow would be You->David->Linus. For
netback I generally don't bother with the "You->" bit but just Ack them
on list and David picks them up.

> David, should it go through you or should I stick it in my tree? Here
> is the patch with a better git description.
> 
> From 1c265b7946f222ab6a5aac5245a0ab84618772c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:18:29 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] xen/netfront: add netconsole support.
> 
> add polling interface to xen-netfront device to support netconsole
> 
> This patch also alters the spin_lock usage to use irqsave variant.
> Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt states that start_xmit
> can be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole and therefore using
> the irqsave/restore locking in this function is looks correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tina.Yang <tina.yang@...cle.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong.Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
> Tested-by: gurudas.pai <gurudas.pai@...cle.com>
> [v1: Copy-n-pasted Ian Campbell comments]
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>


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