On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:11:46AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Sell, Timothy C wrote: > > We have a bus driver currently in drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/ that > > we are trying to get out of staging and into the kernel proper. Since > > "visorbus" is a driver to host a virtual bus presented to a Linux guest > > in a hypervisor environment (refer to > > drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt for more details), > > Greg KH and Jes Sorensen have suggested the possibility that drivers/virt/ > > might be a good place for visorbus. But right now, we see that the only > > driver under drivers/virt/ is the Freescale hypervisor environment, which > > made us wonder whether this was really the correct place. > > > > Would you have any guidance for us? > > Our intent is to push our visorbus out of staging immediately following > > the current merge window. > > What's the problem with Gregs and Jes suggestion? I don't see any. Neither do I, odd that they wanted a third opinion :( > There is bigger fish to fry than the final place of this driver. I had just a > peek at the staging code and there is enough stuff which wants to be cleaned > up before moving anywhere. I don't have time to do a proper review now, but > here are a few hints upfront: <snip> I don't think anyone has given a good review of the code yet, I know it's been a long time for me. It's on my todo list, but that's not going to happen until way after 4.7-rc1 is out. Thanks for this initial list. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
