From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061742.01974.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECF6B3.5020700@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Deepak Saxena , 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 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