Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver |
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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
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