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

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Message-ID: <20120210180212.GA605@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:02:12 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, jbottomley@...allels.com
Cc:	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 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of
 the staging area

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:14:48PM -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.
> 
> 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 sending this patch to move this driver out of staging. Based on James'
> recommendation, this patch gets rid of the unneeded files in the staging/hv
> directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig                       |    7 +++++++
>  drivers/scsi/Makefile                      |    3 +++
>  drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c |    0
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                    |    2 --
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                   |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig                 |    5 -----
>  drivers/staging/hv/Makefile                |    3 ---
>  drivers/staging/hv/TODO                    |    5 -----
>  8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  rename drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c (100%)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/TODO

James, can I add your Acked-by: for this patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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