From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061742.01974.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECF6B3.5020700@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann 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 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? Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that don't really belong anywhere else. And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from TX2EHSOBE005.bigfish.com (tx2ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com [65.55.88.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.global.frontbridge.com", Issuer "Cybertrust SureServer Standard Validation CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4125EB6F8F for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:09:54 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061742.01974.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECF6B3.5020700@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Cc: kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 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: , 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? Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that don't really belong anywhere else. And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754181Ab1FFQJr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:09:47 -0400 Received: from tx2ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.13]:24613 "EHLO TX2EHSOBE005.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751199Ab1FFQJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:09:45 -0400 X-SpamScore: -8 X-BigFish: VS-8(zz1419M98dKzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h668h839h8e3h61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI Message-ID: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/3.6.17-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Deepak Saxena , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061742.01974.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECF6B3.5020700@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that don't really belong anywhere else. And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale