From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4DF0F973.6050008@freescale.com> References: <1307573154-15838-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <20110608161009.7b05d305.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <201106090938.23027.arnd@arndb.de> <4DF0F5A1.5080008@oracle.com> <4DF0F672.8040206@freescale.com> <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Linux Virtualization , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, akpm@kernel.org, dsaxena@linaro.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Randy Dunlap wrote: >> > I'm okay with that idea, except there's a consensus that drivers should be in >> > drivers/. >> > > Like sound/ ? My understanding is that this is something that's considered broken and should be fixed, but I don't know what the holdup is. > but what makes it a "driver"? That's a good point. Ok, so maybe I don't have any really good answers here. :-) -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from CH1EHSOBE004.bigfish.com (ch1ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com [216.32.181.182]) (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 3B8D9B6FE9 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:48:59 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4DF0F973.6050008@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:48:51 -0500 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1307573154-15838-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <20110608161009.7b05d305.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <201106090938.23027.arnd@arndb.de> <4DF0F5A1.5080008@oracle.com> <4DF0F672.8040206@freescale.com> <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, Linux Virtualization , dsaxena@linaro.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, akpm@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Randy Dunlap wrote: >> > I'm okay with that idea, except there's a consensus that drivers should be in >> > drivers/. >> > > Like sound/ ? My understanding is that this is something that's considered broken and should be fixed, but I don't know what the holdup is. > but what makes it a "driver"? That's a good point. Ok, so maybe I don't have any really good answers here. :-) -- 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 S1753352Ab1FIQs6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:48:58 -0400 Received: from ch1ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.181.183]:9748 "EHLO CH1EHSOBE004.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753038Ab1FIQsz (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:48:55 -0400 X-SpamScore: -9 X-BigFish: VS-9(zz1432N98dKzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h668h839h61h) 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: <4DF0F973.6050008@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:48:51 -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: Randy Dunlap CC: Arnd Bergmann , , Linux Virtualization , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1307573154-15838-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <20110608161009.7b05d305.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <201106090938.23027.arnd@arndb.de> <4DF0F5A1.5080008@oracle.com> <4DF0F672.8040206@freescale.com> <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF0F7F5.5050107@oracle.com> 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 Randy Dunlap wrote: >> > I'm okay with that idea, except there's a consensus that drivers should be in >> > drivers/. >> > > Like sound/ ? My understanding is that this is something that's considered broken and should be fixed, but I don't know what the holdup is. > but what makes it a "driver"? That's a good point. Ok, so maybe I don't have any really good answers here. :-) -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale