[patch 0/8] staging: Drivers to support Unisys Secure Partitioning

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Mar 3 19:36:41 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:24:05PM -0600, Ken Cox wrote:
> 
> On 03/03/2014 01:12 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >Why do you want these in the drivers/staging/ part of the kernel?  I
> >have my guesses, but you need to tell me why :)
> Frankly, I wasn't sure of the most appropriate place since this is a
> conglomeration of drivers for hba, serial, video, etc. but they
> don't stand alone outside of the s-PAR environment.  If you can
> recommend a better place for them I'll be happy to move them over.

These will need a lot of work before they can be merged outside of
staging.

In the end, we would want to something like microsoft's hyperv with most
of the stuff in drivers/hv, but some stuff in drivers/scsi/hv_storvsc.c
as well or wherever as needed.

regards,
dan carpenter



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