On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 10:53 +0100, Mathieu Simon wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 3.2.4-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Thank you for enabling the Hyper-V drivers in the 3.2 builds, the
> squeeze backport allowed me to test and confirm that they are not
> as broken as they once were. (in fact: far more stable than they used to be)
>
> Unfortunately the 3.2 kernel only contains the paravirt bus (hv_vmbus)
> utility (hv_utils) drivers out of staging. While mouse, networking
> block device drivers do work, it's only with Linux 3.3 that hv_mousevsc
> (later: hid-hyperv), hv_netvsc have left staging.
> linux-next also contains has hv_storvsc out of staging.
>
> All 3 driver modules got a number of patches before they were accepted
> to move out of staging. - Bug and feature fixes.
>
> I for myself have tried and tested these drivers on a vanilla 3.2.x kernel
> with success. Ubuntu will also base their LTS releas on the 3.2 kernel
> - and they imported the changesets to their 3.2-based tree.
> (See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/929545)
[...]
Please ping this bug after v3.4-rc1 and I'll try to pull all the changes
that went into there.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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