From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:24:53 +0200 Message-ID: <201106061824.53844.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Timur Tabi Cc: Deepak Saxena , kumar.gala@freescale.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, greg@kroah.com, akpm@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, Chris Metcalf On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > When we talked about the situation of drivers/misc and drivers/char at > > one of the recent conferences, a broad consensus was that they are in > > need of a maintainer, which I foolishly signed up for. Deepak wanted > > to send an update to the MAINTAINERS file for this (I guess I can do > > that too, since he must have forgotten about it), but the main idea is > > that I'm there to say no to any driver that someone tries to add there, > > unless there are really good reasons why it is actually a good place > > to live for that driver. > > Can you give me an example of a driver that does belong in drivers/misc? Not really. > Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that > don't really belong anywhere else. The main problem is that for the most part it's a pile of crap that nobody wants to look at, so drivers getting added there see basically no real review. > And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt? I have no doubt that more of these will come. Chris Metcalf is currently looking for a home for his tilera hypervisor drivers, and we have the microsoft hyperv drivers in drivers/staging, so they will hopefully move to a proper place later. We also have similar drivers in other places, e.g. drivers/ps3/ps3-sys-manager.c, drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c or parts of drivers/xen. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973E6B6FBB for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:25:04 +1000 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:24:53 +0200 References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201106061824.53844.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Metcalf , akpm@kernel.org, Deepak Saxena , linux-console@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > When we talked about the situation of drivers/misc and drivers/char at > > one of the recent conferences, a broad consensus was that they are in > > need of a maintainer, which I foolishly signed up for. Deepak wanted > > to send an update to the MAINTAINERS file for this (I guess I can do > > that too, since he must have forgotten about it), but the main idea is > > that I'm there to say no to any driver that someone tries to add there, > > unless there are really good reasons why it is actually a good place > > to live for that driver. > > Can you give me an example of a driver that does belong in drivers/misc? Not really. > Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that > don't really belong anywhere else. The main problem is that for the most part it's a pile of crap that nobody wants to look at, so drivers getting added there see basically no real review. > And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt? I have no doubt that more of these will come. Chris Metcalf is currently looking for a home for his tilera hypervisor drivers, and we have the microsoft hyperv drivers in drivers/staging, so they will hopefully move to a proper place later. We also have similar drivers in other places, e.g. drivers/ps3/ps3-sys-manager.c, drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c or parts of drivers/xen. Arnd