Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754181Ab1FFQJr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:09:47 -0400 Received: from tx2ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.13]:24613 "EHLO TX2EHSOBE005.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751199Ab1FFQJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:09:45 -0400 X-SpamScore: -8 X-BigFish: VS-8(zz1419M98dKzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h668h839h8e3h61h) 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: <4DECFBC5.6070205@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -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: Deepak Saxena , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1306953337-15698-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106061742.01974.arnd@arndb.de> <4DECF6B3.5020700@freescale.com> <201106061803.58531.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201106061803.58531.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: 1123 Lines: 25 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 -- 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/