From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:28:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE8FD85.7000703@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106031724.44957.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > I don't think it's correct to think of a hypervisor as firmware, so I don't
>> > think drivers/firmware is better.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure that creating virt/fsl and putting the driver in there is a good
>> > idea, because it will be the only driver in that directory. Unlike KVM, this
>> > driver is just a collection of front-ends to our hypervisor API. The actual
>> > hypervisor is completely separate. That's why I put it in drivers/misc, because
>> > it's just a single driver with a miscellaneous collection of interfaces.
> Ok, fair enough. If nobody has a strong preference any other way, just make it
> drivers/firmware then.
Did you mean to say drivers/misc?
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-03 15:28 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 [this message]
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
2011-06-03 14:44 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-03 15:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
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