From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:04:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20120209200404.GA8816@kroah.com> References: <1328817851-13435-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1328817851-13435-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, ohering@suse.com, jbottomley@parallels.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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? thanks, greg k-h