linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] IIO fixes / Staging driver for 5.4-rc7

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:56:29 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] IIO fixes / Staging driver for 5.4-rc7

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:34:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > The staging driver addition is the vboxsf filesystem, which is the
> > VirtualBox guest shared folder code.  Hans has been trying to get
> > filesystem reviewers to review the code for many months now, and
> > Christoph finally said to just merge it in staging now as it is
> > stand-alone and the filesystem people can review it easier over time
> > that way.
> 
> No, this is absolutely contrary to what I said.  I told Hans to just
> send it to Linus because it is ready and not staging fodder a atll.

Hah, ok, I got that totally wrong.  I'll send a patch moving it to the
"real" part of the kernel now.

thanks,

greg k-h