-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:24 PM
To: James Bottomley
Cc: KY Srinivasan; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
virtualization@lists.osdl.org; ohering@suse.com; hch@infradead.org; linux-
scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of the
staging area

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:18:38PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:

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On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:04 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:04:11PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:

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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

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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,

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I am re-sending this patch to move this driver out of staging.


Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
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 drivers/scsi/Kconfig       |    7 +
 drivers/scsi/Makefile      |    3 +
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1548

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 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?

Well, yes, it has the same build failure as the previous one and that
will make it non bisectable.

Ah, that would make things a bit difficult, KY, please test your
patches...

Greg,

I pulled down your staging tree earlier today that had all the storvsc patches that you
checked in yesterday, applied this patch and built it (successfully).

Regards,

K. Y