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

On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote:

Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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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?

Not really.

Frankly, I just don't see what's wrong with a repository of various drivers that
don't really belong anywhere else.

The main problem is that for the most part it's a pile of crap that
nobody wants to look at, so drivers getting added there see basically
no real review.

And what about my concern that my driver will be the only one in drivers/virt?

I have no doubt that more of these will come. Chris Metcalf is currently
looking for a home for his tilera hypervisor drivers, and we have the
microsoft hyperv drivers in drivers/staging, so they will hopefully
move to a proper place later. We also have similar drivers in other
places, e.g. drivers/ps3/ps3-sys-manager.c, drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
or parts of drivers/xen.

	Arnd