On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote: > 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? 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
