linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver

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Message-ID: <4DEE7A12.80302@freescale.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:20:50 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<kumar.gala@...escale.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<akpm@...nel.org>, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	<linux-console@...r.kernel.org>, <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor
 management driver

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> For the spi flash driver that goes through the hypervisor abstraction,
> I think drivers/virt/tile would be better than driver/platform/tile,
> but we should really have a new "abstract flash character driver" subsystem
> for that.

Why should it matter that the SPI flash driver goes through the hypervisor
abstration?  One of the patches in this patchset is a TTY driver that goes
through the Freescale hypervisor.  I put the drivers in drivers/tty.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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