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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
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    On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote:
    > 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?

    Not really.

    > Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that
    > don't really belong anywhere else.

    The main problem is that for the most part it's a pile of crap that
    nobody wants to look at, so drivers getting added there see basically
    no real review.

    > And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt?

    I have no doubt that more of these will come. Chris Metcalf is currently
    looking for a home for his tilera hypervisor drivers, and we have the
    microsoft hyperv drivers in drivers/staging, so they will hopefully
    move to a proper place later. We also have similar drivers in other
    places, e.g. drivers/ps3/ps3-sys-manager.c, drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
    or parts of drivers/xen.

    Arnd


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