linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:17:52 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	john.stultz@...aro.org, tj@...nel.org, marcel@...tmann.org,
	desrt@...rt.ca, hadess@...ess.net, dh.herrmann@...il.com,
	tixxdz@...ndz.org, simon.mcvittie@...labora.co.uk,
	daniel@...que.org, alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk,
	javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk, teg@...m.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:33:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2014 15:00:44 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >  drivers/misc/Kconfig                             |    1 +
> >  drivers/misc/Makefile                            |    1 +
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/Kconfig                       |   11 +
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/Makefile                      |   19 +
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/bus.c                         |  450 ++++++
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/bus.h                         |  107 ++
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/connection.c                  | 1751 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/connection.h                  |  177 +++
> >  drivers/misc/kdbus/domain.c                      |  477 ++++++
> > 
> 
> One very high-level common:
> 
> Since this is going to be a very commonly used IPC mechanism, I don't
> like the idea of stuffing it into drivers/misc.
> 
> How about putting it into drivers/kdbus or ipc/kdbus instead?

ipc/kdbus seems good to me.  I didn't want to "pollute" drivers/ with
any new subdirectories, it seems to grow fast enough as it is...

greg k-h
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