Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area

["Rolf Eike Beer" <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>]

> 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.
>
> This patch includes all the patches that I have sent against the
> staging/hv
> tree to address the comments I have gotten to date on this storage driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig       |    7 +
>  drivers/scsi/Makefile      |    3 +
>  drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1586
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 1596 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> index 06ea3bc..4910269 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> @@ -662,6 +662,13 @@ config VMWARE_PVSCSI
>  	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
>  	  module will be called vmw_pvscsi.
>
> +config HYPERV_STORAGE
> +	tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V virtual storage driver"
> +	depends on SCSI && HYPERV
> +	default HYPERV
> +	help
> +	  Select this option to enable the Hyper-V virtual storage driver.
> +
>  config LIBFC
>  	tristate "LibFC module"
>  	select SCSI_FC_ATTRS

Maybe that help text could be slightly more verbose? Like "This is only
necessary if you plan to run this kernel as a guest on Microsoft Hyper-V"?
And I would welcome the usual "the module will be called" text for this
driver, too. See the first 2 lines of context of think hunk for a
copy&paste source of this text.

Eike