Subject: Re: [Alacrityvm-devel] [PATCH v2] net: Add vbus_enet driver

From: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:57:52 -0400

David Miller wrote:
> From: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:14:04 -0400
> 
>> net: Add vbus_enet driver
>>
>> A virtualized 802.x network device based on the VBUS interface. It can be
>> used with any hypervisor/kernel that supports the virtual-ethernet/vbus
>> protocol.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
> 
> I'm fine with this, it depends upon the vbus infrastructure so
> whoever pulls that in can pull this in as well:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>

Thanks, David.

If there are no other comments/objections, I would propose to pull this
into linux-next.  I have prepared a branch specifically for this
purpose, which can be found here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/alacrityvm/linux-2.6.git
linux-next

I have also folded the following update to MAINTAINERS into the series:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d6befb2..7cbcf5d 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2707,6 +2707,12 @@ L:       [email-masked]
 S:     Maintained
 F:     drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c

+IOQ LIBRARY
+M:     Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
+S:     Maintained
+F:     include/linux/ioq.h
+F:     lib/ioq.c
+
 IP MASQUERADING
 M:     Juanjo Ciarlante <[email-masked]>
 S:     Maintained
@@ -4555,6 +4561,12 @@ F:       drivers/serial/serial_lh7a40x.c
 F:     drivers/usb/gadget/lh7a40*
 F:     drivers/usb/host/ohci-lh7a40*

+SHM-SIGNAL LIBRARY
+M:     Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
+S:     Maintained
+F:     include/linux/shm_signal.h
+F:     lib/shm_signal.c
+
 SHPC HOTPLUG DRIVER
 M:     Kristen Carlson Accardi <[email-masked]>
 L:     [email-masked]
@@ -5423,6 +5435,19 @@ S:       Maintained
 F:     Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt
 F:     drivers/video/uvesafb.*

+VBUS
+M:     Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
+S:     Maintained
+F:     include/linux/vbus*
+F:     drivers/vbus/*
+
+VBUS ETHERNET DRIVER
+M:     Gregory Haskins <[email-masked]>
+S:     Maintained
+W:     http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/AlacrityVM
+F:     include/linux/venet.h
+F:     drivers/net/vbus-enet.c
+
 VFAT/FAT/MSDOS FILESYSTEM
 M:     OGAWA Hirofumi <[email-masked]>
 S:     Maintained