Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:04:04 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the staging area |
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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@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?
thanks,
greg k-h
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