From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:17:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20141030161752.GB21989@kroah.com> References: <1414620056-6675-1-git-send-email-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <4382138.U2ODUIQ55c@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4382138.U2ODUIQ55c@wuerfel> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.stultz@linaro.org, tj@kernel.org, marcel@holtmann.org, desrt@desrt.ca, hadess@hadess.net, dh.herrmann@gmail.com, tixxdz@opendz.org, simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk, daniel@zonque.org, alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk, javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk, teg@jklm.no List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:33:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2014 15:00:44 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 + > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/misc/kdbus/Kconfig | 11 + > > drivers/misc/kdbus/Makefile | 19 + > > drivers/misc/kdbus/bus.c | 450 ++++++ > > drivers/misc/kdbus/bus.h | 107 ++ > > drivers/misc/kdbus/connection.c | 1751 +++++++++++++++++++++ > > drivers/misc/kdbus/connection.h | 177 +++ > > drivers/misc/kdbus/domain.c | 477 ++++++ > > > > One very high-level common: > > Since this is going to be a very commonly used IPC mechanism, I don't > like the idea of stuffing it into drivers/misc. > > How about putting it into drivers/kdbus or ipc/kdbus instead? ipc/kdbus seems good to me. I didn't want to "pollute" drivers/ with any new subdirectories, it seems to grow fast enough as it is... greg k-h