From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v5] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:31:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20110609203117.GB14235@kroah.com> References: <1307646794-26374-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106092213.13755.arnd@arndb.de> <4DF12A94.6070605@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=d+z7VJIKbi/eNRN9q+tP73z4n68=; b=jERuf1ofkFgnQNKeD/rQQ/pXCM97YnqPDxjXk9XVkvXPUZDVRVim0ZKlctIiMcYQumPPtKppvy8fu7K1inwOC16zhHXBpwuCBMMyQk+cc/rPrYRmrcK5Z2ezMG0YdsI3dqH+0fDxhN6qkH1J1zr22ivFPLNRF8QyBFFvw9Zm7t0= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF12A94.6070605@freescale.com> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Timur Tabi Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, kumar.gala@freescale.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 03:18:28PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > > More importantly, the code you have chose (0) conflicts with existing drivers > > (frame buffer, scsi and wavefront among others). Please chose a free one and > > add it to Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt in the same patch. > > Ok, I was really hoping to avoid doing this. Like I said, binary compatibility > is important, and changing the type will break my existing apps. Are you > insisting that I pick a new number? Why is binary compatibility important? Isn't this a brand new driver for a brand new system? What userspace tools are out there in the wild for such a thing? confused, greg k-h