Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 May 2016 10:26:37 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] add bus driver for Unisys s-Par paravirtualized devices to arch/x86 |
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:03:58PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:49:53PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> > Ok, but still no need to put it under arch/ anything, it should go in > >> > drivers/ like all other drivers and busses are, no matter what the arch > >> > it happens to run on is. > >> > >> I don't think thats obvious. arch/x86/kvm is an example of this, Sparc > >> and PPC also have their stuff under arch/. > > > > For some things, yes, but let's not make the same mistakes as others :) > > > > Look at drivers/hv/ for an example of a very x86-only bus and driver > > subsystem living in drivers/ Please don't burry driver stuff in arch/ > > the ARM developers are trying to fix their mistakes of the past and move > > all of their cruft out of arch/ for that reason. > > Works for me. > > So should they put it in drivers/visorbus or drivers/bus/visorbus?
drivers/visorbus please. drivers/bus/ is an "odd" thing :(
> What about drivers/virt? Would you suggest hv and xen gets moved in > there?
Ah, yeah, that would be great, never noticed it before, despite being there since 2011...
thanks,
greg k-h
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