From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Cc: kumar.gala@freescale•com, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
akpm@kernel•org, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro•org>,
linux-console@vger•kernel.org, greg@kroah•com,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.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
next prev parent 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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