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

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rolf Eike Beer [mailto:eike-kernel at sf-tec.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:17 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;
> jbottomley at parallels.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
> 
> Am Mittwoch 25 Januar 2012, 10:29:47 schrieb K. Y. Srinivasan:
> > 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.
> >
> > This patch is based on the storvsc patches that are already on Greg's queue
> > for the staging tree. This patch-set addressed Christoph's review comments.
> > If need be, I can re-send this patch-set in Greg's queue
> > or I can  send the fully patched storvsc_drv.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/Kconfig                       |    7 +++++++
> >  drivers/scsi/Makefile                      |    3 +++
> >  drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c |    0
> >  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  rename drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c (100%)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> > index 16570aa..d3d18e8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> > @@ -662,6 +662,13 @@ config VMWARE_PVSCSI
> >  	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> >  	  module will be called vmw_pvscsi.
> >
> > +config HYPERV_STORAGE
> > +	tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V virtual storage driver"
> > +	depends on SCSI && HYPERV
> > +	default HYPERV
> > +	help
> > +	  Select this option to enable the Hyper-V virtual storage driver.
> > +
> >  config LIBFC
> >  	tristate "LibFC module"
> >  	select SCSI_FC_ATTRS
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Makefile b/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> > index 2b88749..e4c1a69 100644
> 
> I still miss a "this driver will be called ..." message here, as it is used
> e.g. by the entry before:

After I moved the file to the scsi directory, in my haste I forgot to git add
the file. Sorry for the confusion; I will send out the corrected patches soon.

Regards,

K. Y