From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53158 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754782AbdHYLxQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:53:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Add Virtual Box vboxguest and vboxsf guest drivers to the mainline kernel To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexander Viro , Michael Thayer , "Knut St . Osmundsen" , Larry Finger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux FS-devel Mailing List References: <20170811132324.6216-1-hdegoede@redhat.com> <251f94d0-7110-aaf1-172b-5120fce2f105@redhat.com> From: Hans de Goede Message-ID: <4e1933d6-e1b9-c94c-df56-696f4ea21bf4@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:53:12 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On 11-08-17 21:34, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: >> On 11-08-17 18:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Hans de Goede >>> wrote: >>>> On 11-08-17 18:02, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> How about adding it to drivers/virt/ then? >> >> >> That as actually my first choice, but there is only the 1 driver there >> now, so I was thinking that we should move that 1 driver out of there >> and get rid of it actually :) >> >> But as said it was my first choice, so maybe it should go there and then >> over time we can move all the things you've listed there (assuming anyone >> finds the time to do this). >> >> One issues with drivers/virt is no-one is listed for it in MAINTAINERS... > > Maybe we could add it to the "CHAR and MISC DRIVERS" section > in the absence of any other subsystem for it, if you want a well-defined > path for where to send patches. That sounds like a good plan, I will send out a MAINTAINERS patch adding drivers/misc/* to the files list for the "CHAR and MISC DRIVERS" section. Regards, Hans