From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755371Ab2AXI6I (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:58:08 -0500 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:21376 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754667Ab2AXI6G (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:58:06 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,561,1320624000"; d="scan'208";a="10239424" Message-ID: <1327395480.17019.1.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netconsole support for xen-netfront From: Ian Campbell To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: Tina Yang , "davem@davemloft.net" , Zhenzhong Duan , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "gurudas.pai@oracle.com" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:58:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20120123182443.GA22963@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1326271956-25565-1-git-send-email-zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> <20120112141745.GA7685@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1326452769.17210.331.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4F15EB3E.3060700@oracle.com> <20120117215100.GA25367@phenom.dumpdata.com> <4F160113.1030503@oracle.com> <1326877176.29475.37.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <4F173467.90106@oracle.com> <20120123182443.GA22963@phenom.dumpdata.com> Organization: Citrix Systems, Inc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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 > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge > Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong.Duan > Tested-by: gurudas.pai > [v1: Copy-n-pasted Ian Campbell comments] > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Ian Campbell