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Message-Id: <201106072134.24721.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:34:24 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> 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 On Tuesday 07 June 2011 21:20:50 Timur Tabi wrote: > 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. The driver in question is for a hypervisor that abstracts the flash memory using a read/write interface. There is no way you can represent that as a SPI host driver. Arnd -- 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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