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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>,
	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: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When we talked about the situation of drivers/misc and drivers/char at
> one of the recent conferences, a broad consensus was that they are in
> need of a maintainer, which I foolishly signed up for. Deepak wanted
> to send an update to the MAINTAINERS file for this (I guess I can do
> that too, since he must have forgotten about it), but the main idea is
> that I'm there to say no to any driver that someone tries to add there,
> unless there are really good reasons why it is actually a good place
> to live for that driver.

Can you give me an example of a driver that *does* belong in drivers/misc?
Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that
don't really belong anywhere else.

And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06 16:09 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 [this message]
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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