From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
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 1/2] Staging: hv: Applied all the patches already in the staging queue
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:50:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327600244.6151.5.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120126173751.GA14400@suse.de>
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:38:34AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > This patch gets the storage driver to the same level as in the staging tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c | 1301 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > 1 files changed, 633 insertions(+), 668 deletions(-)
>
> What? That changelog comment makes no sense at all, as you are patching
> the staging version of the driver. This isn't an acceptable patch at
> all.
Agreed
> Yes, I have pending patches for this driver in my "to-apply" queue, but
> that is for 3.4, not now.
>
> So, how about I just apply those patches, and then apply a patch that
> moves it out of staging into drivers/scsi/, and queue all of those up
> for 3.4.
>
> James, any objection to that?
Well, we were going to try to stage this driver for 3.3-rc. If everyone
agrees to push it back to 3.4, then this works for me.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-26 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 17:37 [PATCH 0000/0002] Staging: hv: Move the storage driver out of staging K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-26 17:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Staging: hv: Applied all the patches already in the staging queue K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-26 17:37 ` Greg KH
2012-01-26 17:41 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-01-26 17:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2012-02-09 15:31 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-02-09 16:29 ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 16:42 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-01-26 17:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area K. Y. Srinivasan
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