On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:59:36AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 03:01 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Bottomley [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 5:27 PM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> > > [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> > > [email protected];
> > > [email protected]; [email protected]; Haiyang Zhang
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver 
> > > out of
> > > staging
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 23:28 -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > In preparation for moving the storage driver out of staging, seek 
> > > > community
> > > > review of the storage  driver code.
> > > 
> > > That's not exactly a very descriptive commit message for me to put into
> > > SCSI.  It doesn't have to be huge, just something like "driver to enable
> > > hyperv windows guest on Linux" or something.
> > 
> > Sorry about the commit message. I will have a more descriptive message in 
> > the next
> > submission.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >  drivers/scsi/Kconfig             |    7 +
> > > >  drivers/scsi/Makefile            |    3 +
> > > >  drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c       | 1480
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig       |    6 -
> > > >  drivers/staging/hv/Makefile      |    2 -
> > > >  drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c | 1480 
> > > > --------------------------------------
> > > >  6 files changed, 1490 insertions(+), 1488 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > What tree is this against?  The hv/storvsc_drv.c in upstream only has
> > > 
> > > jejb@dabdike> wc -l drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > > 792 drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > > 
> > > i.e. whatever you're sending is double the length (and obviously I have
> > > trouble applying the patch.
> > 
> > This patch  moves the file from drivers/staging/hv/ directory to the 
> > drivers/scsi directory; hence double the length.
> 
> No, that's not it.  Look again: the storvsc_drv.c in staging is removing
> 1480 lines, but in git head, this file is only 792 lines long ... is
> there an alternative tree with the rest in?
> 
> The point I'm making is that the staging file you're modifying isn't the
> one I see in Linus' git head, so which git tree is it in (I assume it's
> somewhere waiting for the merge window)?

I guess it's the staging tree you're looking for.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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