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 19:31:40 +0000
From:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:jbottomley@...allels.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:29 PM
> To: Greg KH
> Cc: KY Srinivasan; 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 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>

Thank you.

K. Y