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?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale