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Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree

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On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 18:05 +0200, greg@kroah.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:41:28PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > * Most SCSI drivers exist under drivers/scsi, including the virtio-scsi and
> >   xen-scsifront drivers. So why has the visorhba driver been added under
> >   unisys/visorhba?
> 
> That's because right now it's still a staging driver.  Also, there are
> other scsi drivers in other portions of the kernel tree (like the USB
> driver), so there's no hard rule that all scsi drivers have to be under
> drivers/scsi/
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Please provide this review to them, on the properly mailing list, I'm
> sure they would be glad to get it.

OK, I will do that. BTW, is there a written down version of the rules for
adding a driver under drivers/staging available somewhere? As far as I can
see the visorhba driver went in without the linux-scsi mailing list having
been CC-ed. See also Benjamin Romer, [PATCH] staging: unisys: Add s-Par
visorhba, linux-driver-devel mailing list, July 2015
(https://marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=143681271902628).

Thanks,

Bart.

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linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2017-08-28 08:50 +0200
  Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-08-28 08:50 +0200
    Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> - 2017-08-28 17:50 +0200
      Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree "greg@kroah.com" <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-08-28 18:10 +0200
        Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> - 2017-08-28 18:40 +0200
          Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree "greg@kroah.com" <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-08-28 18:50 +0200
            RE: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree "Wadgaonkar, Sameer Laxmikant" <Sameer.Wadgaonkar@unisys.com> - 2017-08-28 19:10 +0200
            Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-08-28 20:00 +0200
              Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree "greg@kroah.com" <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-08-28 20:50 +0200
  Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with the staging tree Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2017-09-05 02:20 +0200

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