[PATCH 1/1][RESEND] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Wed Dec 21 00:42:52 UTC 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dan.j.williams at gmail.com [mailto:dan.j.williams at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Dan Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:06 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at suse.de; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization at lists.osdl.org; ohering at suse.com;
> James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com; hch at infradead.org; linux-
> scsi at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1][RESEND] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver
> out of the staging area
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:51 AM, K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> 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.
> > As per Greg's recommendation, this patch makes no changes to the staging/hv
> > directory. Once the driver moves out of staging, we will cleanup the
> > staging/hv directory.
> >
> > This patch includes all the patches that I have sent against the staging/hv
> > tree to address the comments I have gotten to date on this storage driver.
> > Greg has already applied all these patches to the staging tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/Kconfig       |    7 +
> >  drivers/scsi/Makefile      |    3 +
> >  drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1586
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 1596 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> 
> Shouldn't this diffstat be something like the following?
> 
>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig                       |    7 +
>  drivers/scsi/Makefile                      |    3 +
>  drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c |  310 +++++++++++++++++++---------
>  3 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
>  rename drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c (87%)

As per Greg's suggestion, this patch does not remove the driver from
the staging tree. Once the driver lands in the correct directory, we will
remove the driver from the staging directory.

Regards,

K. Y




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