Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756057Ab1FCP2N (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:28:13 -0400 Received: from db3ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([213.199.154.140]:12215 "EHLO DB3EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473Ab1FCP2L (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:28:11 -0400 X-SpamScore: -9 X-BigFish: VS-9(zz1432N98dKzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h668h839h61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI Message-ID: <4DE8FD85.7000703@freescale.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:28:05 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/3.6.17-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106012340.14237.arnd@arndb.de> <4DE8008E.9030008@freescale.com> <201106031724.44957.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201106031724.44957.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 24 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/