[PATCH 2/2] staging: hv_uio userspace i/o driver for Hyper-V VMbus

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 09:43:52AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> 
> This is a staging driver to enable userspace networking on VMBus.
> Hyper-V does not support guest IOMMU, so this is an alternative
> to allow for applications using DPDK.
> 
> This is based on earlier GPL driver developed for DPDK by Brocade.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/connection.c         |   1 +
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig         |   2 +
>  drivers/staging/Makefile        |   1 +
>  drivers/staging/hv_uio/Kconfig  |   6 ++
>  drivers/staging/hv_uio/Makefile |   4 +
>  drivers/staging/hv_uio/hv_uio.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why staging?  If you do this, I need a TODO file to list what needs to
be done to it in order to get it out of staging...

thanks,

greg k-h