Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/virt/vSMP: new driver

From: Czerwacki, Eial
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 06:48:54 EST


>On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:24:02AM +0000, Czerwacki, Eial wrote:
>> Introducing the vSMP guest driver which allows interaction with the
>> vSMP control device when running a Linux OS atop of the vSMP hypervisor.
>> vSMP is a resource aggregation hypervisor from SAP.
>>
>> The driver comprises of api part which facilitates communication with
>> the hypervisor and version which displays the hypervisor's version.
>>
>> This patch s based on previous patches sent to the staging tree mailing
>> lists
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eial Czerwacki <eial.czerwacki@xxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Leonid Arsh <leonid.arsh@xxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Oren Twaig <oren.twaig@xxxxxxx>
>> CC: SAP vSMP Linux Maintainer <linux.vsmp@xxxxxxx>
>> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> CC: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
>> CC: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Fei Li <fei1.li@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>>        - fix -0 var init in add_sysfs_entries (pointed out by Dan Carpenter)
>
>Please don't resend patches the same day.  Always wait at least a day
>but probably for a new driver wait 3 days.  There are going to be a lot
>of comments on this.
>
>My comment didn't even warrant a resend at all, it just something that
>made me chuckle.  It will take a while to review this properly.
>
>regards,
>dan carpenter
>

I did not know that, sorry