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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:09:41 -0500 From: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> CC: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>, <kumar.gala@...escale.com>, <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, <greg@...ah.com>, <akpm@...nel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-console@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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