Bug#661318: Possibility integrating newer Hyper-V paravirt drivers in squeeze?

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Mathieu Simon wrote:

> I'd like to help getting the patches in right shape - if possible.
[...]
> Does Debian prefer "1 patch per upstream" commit or have one big patch
> per driver/file?

I believe the kernel team is happiest if there's a public git tree
based against 3.2, gregkh's 3.2.y, or some similar release like
gregkh's 3.0.y to pull patches from.  (Compare aufs.)

[...]
> ata_pIIx doesn't defer to the (much faster) paravirt storage driver when
> Debian is run on Hyper-V,
> or worse, we can lose the root file system when drivers switch between
> storvsc and ata_piix.
>
> As we can't use modprobe rules (as done on RHEL for this), Andy
> Whitcroft has come up
> with a patch for Ubuntu's 3.2-based kernel that solves the problem and
> does the job on
> Wheezys' kernel too.*
[...]
> * http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-precise.git;a=commitdiff;h=a896e46ae52619bf4f34cdb342c2862071f5c25c;hp=720dab378e884a99b6d8aed51f7eb1615d10549e
> (MS' Mike Sterling agreed in community forums that this patch isn't
> likely to go upstream as such...)

Has the topic been raised on the linux-ide@ list?

Thanks,
Jonathan