linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: hv: Applied all the patches already in the staging queue

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:50:44 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, ohering@...e.com, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: hv: Applied all the patches already in the
 staging queue

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@...rosoft.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


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