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

From: James Bottomley
Date: Mon Feb 13 2012 - 14:28:42 EST


On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:02 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Yes ... i finally managed to pull your tree down and verify it.

Acked-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

James

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