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

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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:28:38 +0000
From:	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	"ohering@...e.com" <ohering@...e.com>,
	"hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out
 of the staging area

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:02 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Yes ... i finally managed to pull your tree down and verify it.

Acked-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>

James