> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:25 PM > To: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Sell, Timothy C; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kershner, David A; > corbet@xxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; hpa@xxxxxxxxx; Arfvidson, Erik; > hofrat@xxxxxxxxx; dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx; Curtin, Alexander Paul; > janani.rvchndrn@xxxxxxxxx; sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx; > prarit@xxxxxxxxxx; Binder, David Anthony; nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx; > dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; driverdev-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; *S-Par- > Maintainer; Jes Sorensen > Subject: Re: new driver for drivers/virt/? > > 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 :( Sorry; I didn't intend to belittle your opinions. Since we want to push code to drivers/virt/, I figured it would be prudent to get permission from those folks reported by: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/virt/ first. That was the intent of my original email, and why I chose the distribution list I did. I've never done this before, so I spend quite a lot of time groping around blindly... ;-( Tim Sell > > > 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
