-----Original Message-----
From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:46 PM
To: KY Srinivasan
Cc: Greg KH; 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, 2012-02-09 at 20:43 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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-----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;

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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

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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

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was taken to defer this to 3.4 since Greg had queued up a bunch of

storvsc

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patches for 3.4. Now that Greg has applied all of the pending storvsc

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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

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checked in yesterday, applied this patch and built it (successfully).

You're leaving remnants in staging.

Move the damn thing and pull the config options from staging when you
put them in SCSI.

Greg had recommended that the patch moving the driver should not delete the contents
in the staging directory and that he (Greg) would clean up the staging directory. Greg, let me
know if you want me to send you a patch that includes getting rid of the stuff from the staging area.

Regards,

K. Y