From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758108Ab2BIUkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:40:41 -0500 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:51768 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752881Ab2BIUkj (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:40:39 -0500 Message-ID: <1328820036.2944.23.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: KY Srinivasan Cc: Greg KH , "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 14:40:36 -0600 In-Reply-To: <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481B70CB0A@TK5EX14MBXC128.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <1328817851-13435-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20120209200404.GA8816@kroah.com> <1328818718.2944.20.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <6E21E5352C11B742B20C142EB499E0481B70CB0A@TK5EX14MBXC128.redmond.corp.microsoft.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 20:21 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:19 PM > > To: Greg KH > > Cc: KY Srinivasan; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; > > virtualization@lists.osdl.org; ohering@suse.com; hch@infradead.org; linux- > > scsi@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the > > staging area > > > > 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, > > What build failure is this. I just pulled down Greg's tree earlier today and applied this > patch and built it. This one marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=132760187731205 James