From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] IIO fixes / Staging driver for 5.4-rc7
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:56:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191112065629.GA1242198@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112063440.GA15951@infradead.org>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:34:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > The staging driver addition is the vboxsf filesystem, which is the
> > VirtualBox guest shared folder code. Hans has been trying to get
> > filesystem reviewers to review the code for many months now, and
> > Christoph finally said to just merge it in staging now as it is
> > stand-alone and the filesystem people can review it easier over time
> > that way.
>
> No, this is absolutely contrary to what I said. I told Hans to just
> send it to Linus because it is ready and not staging fodder a atll.
Hah, ok, I got that totally wrong. I'll send a patch moving it to the
"real" part of the kernel now.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-10 15:43 [GIT PULL] IIO fixes / Staging driver for 5.4-rc7 Greg KH
2019-11-10 21:35 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-11-12 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 6:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-11-12 22:54 ` [PATCH] vboxsf: move out of staging to fs/ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-12 22:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-12 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 5:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-13 5:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-13 8:03 ` Hans de Goede
2019-11-13 8:03 ` Hans de Goede
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