From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@kernel.org, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>,
linux-console@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106072134.24721.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEE7A12.80302@freescale.com>
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 21:20:50 Timur Tabi wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > For the spi flash driver that goes through the hypervisor abstraction,
> > I think drivers/virt/tile would be better than driver/platform/tile,
> > but we should really have a new "abstract flash character driver" subsystem
> > for that.
>
> Why should it matter that the SPI flash driver goes through the hypervisor
> abstration? One of the patches in this patchset is a TTY driver that goes
> through the Freescale hypervisor. I put the drivers in drivers/tty.
The driver in question is for a hypervisor that abstracts the flash memory
using a read/write interface. There is no way you can represent that as
a SPI host driver.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-07 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 18:35 [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Timur Tabi
2011-06-01 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 20:24 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-01 20:34 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 20:54 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-01 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-01 21:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-01 22:24 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-03 15:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-03 16:22 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-06 15:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 18:15 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-06 19:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-02 21:28 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-03 15:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-03 15:28 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 15:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 15:48 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 16:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 16:09 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 16:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-06 16:27 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-06 21:01 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-06 21:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-06 23:04 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-07 7:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-07 16:49 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-07 19:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-07 19:20 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-07 19:34 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-06-03 14:44 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-03 15:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
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