netdev - Re: netvsc NAPI patch process

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Message-Id: <20170126.154846.1186219396179258597.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:48:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kys@...rosoft.com
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org, greg@...ah.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netvsc NAPI patch process

From: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 20:46:40 +0000

> In the past, we have done this in two stages - get the supporting
> vmbus patches into Greg's tree first and in the next merge cycle get
> the netvsc patches in. Why not continue to do what we have done in
> the past to address cross-tree dependencies.

It takes too damn long.