Re: [GIT PULL] IIO fixes / Staging driver for 5.4-rc7

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 01:56:39 EST


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:34:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > The staging driver addition is the vboxsf filesystem, which is the
> > VirtualBox guest shared folder code. Hans has been trying to get
> > filesystem reviewers to review the code for many months now, and
> > Christoph finally said to just merge it in staging now as it is
> > stand-alone and the filesystem people can review it easier over time
> > that way.
>
> No, this is absolutely contrary to what I said. I told Hans to just
> send it to Linus because it is ready and not staging fodder a atll.

Hah, ok, I got that totally wrong. I'll send a patch moving it to the
"real" part of the kernel now.

thanks,

greg k-h