From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758053Ab2BIUSl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:18:41 -0500 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:51660 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124Ab2BIUSk (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:18:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1328818718.2944.20.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area From: James Bottomley To: Greg KH Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, ohering@suse.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:18:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20120209200404.GA8816@kroah.com> References: <1328817851-13435-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20120209200404.GA8816@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:04 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:04:11PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > The storage driver (storvsc_drv.c) handles all block storage devices > > assigned to Linux guests hosted on Hyper-V. This driver has been in the > > staging tree for a while and this patch moves it out of the staging area. > > As per Greg's recommendation, this patch makes no changes to the staging/hv > > directory. Once the driver moves out of staging, we will cleanup the > > staging/hv directory. > > > > James was willing to apply this patch during the 3.3-rc phase and a decision > > was taken to defer this to 3.4 since Greg had queued up a bunch of storvsc > > patches for 3.4. Now that Greg has applied all of the pending storvsc patches, > > I am re-sending this patch to move this driver out of staging. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > > --- > > drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 7 + > > drivers/scsi/Makefile | 3 + > > drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1548 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 3 files changed, 1558 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c > > James, any objection to me applying this to the staging-next tree, and > at the same time, deleting this version of the driver from the > drivers/staging/hv/ directory? Well, yes, it has the same build failure as the previous one and that will make it non bisectable. James