On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:01:36PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > On 6/6/2011 12:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote:. > >> 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. > > It might help if someone (Arnd?) wanted to propose a statement of what > drivers/virt was really for. If it's for any Linux driver that upcalls to Was for? I am not seeing it in v3.0-rc2? > a hypervisor for any reason, then the Tilera paravirtualized drivers fit in > well. If it's intended more for drivers that guests running under a > hypervisor can use to talk to the hypervisor itself (e.g. managing I believe that the code that deals with specific subsystem (so block API for example) would reside in subsystem directory (so drivers/block would have your virtualization block driver). This allows the maintainer of block to make sure your driver is OK. > notifications that a hypervisor delivers to a guest to cause it to shut > down or take other actions), then it doesn't seem like the Tilera That looks to be arch/<x>/tilera/virt/ candidate? > paravirtualized device drivers belong there, since they're just using the > Tilera hypervisor synchronously to do I/O or get/set device and driver state. Well, I/O sounds like block API or network API. But then you are also doing management ioctl - which implies "drivers". "drivers/tilera" does not work? > > -- > Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. > http://www.tilera.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- 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
