RE: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver outof the staging area

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:02 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan; jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the
> staging area
> 
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:14:48PM -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.
> >
> > 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 sending this patch to move this driver out of staging. Based on James'
> > recommendation, this patch gets rid of the unneeded files in the staging/hv
> > directory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/scsi/Kconfig                       |    7 +++++++
> >  drivers/scsi/Makefile                      |    3 +++
> >  drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c |    0
> >  drivers/staging/Kconfig                    |    2 --
> >  drivers/staging/Makefile                   |    1 -
> >  drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig                 |    5 -----
> >  drivers/staging/hv/Makefile                |    3 ---
> >  drivers/staging/hv/TODO                    |    5 -----
> >  8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >  rename drivers/{staging/hv => scsi}/storvsc_drv.c (100%)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/Makefile
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/hv/TODO
> 
> James, can I add your Acked-by: for this patch?

James,
Based on my understanding of your comments, I think this is what you
wanted. So, what is the verdict.

Regards,

K. Y. 


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