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

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com
Thu Feb 9 20:45:56 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 20:43 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:24 PM
> > To: James Bottomley
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org;
> > virtualization at lists.osdl.org; ohering at suse.com; hch at infradead.org; linux-
> > scsi at vger.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 02:18:38PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:04 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:04:11PM -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.
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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 re-sending this patch to move this driver out of staging.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  drivers/scsi/Kconfig       |    7 +
> > > > >  drivers/scsi/Makefile      |    3 +
> > > > >  drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1548
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > >  3 files changed, 1558 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> > > >
> > > > James, any objection to me applying this to the staging-next tree, and
> > > > at the same time, deleting this version of the driver from the
> > > > drivers/staging/hv/ directory?
> > >
> > > Well, yes, it has the same build failure as the previous one and that
> > > will make it non bisectable.
> > 
> > Ah, that would make things a bit difficult, KY, please test your
> > patches...
> 
> Greg,
> 
> I pulled down your staging tree earlier today that had all the storvsc patches that you
> checked in yesterday, applied this patch and built it (successfully).

You're leaving remnants in staging.

Move the damn thing and pull the config options from staging when you
put them in SCSI.

James





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