Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Timur Tabi <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:28:05 -0500
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > I don't think it's correct to think of a hypervisor as firmware, so I don't >> > think drivers/firmware is better. >> > >> > I'm not sure that creating virt/fsl and putting the driver in there is a good >> > idea, because it will be the only driver in that directory. Unlike KVM, this >> > driver is just a collection of front-ends to our hypervisor API. The actual >> > hypervisor is completely separate. That's why I put it in drivers/misc, because >> > it's just a single driver with a miscellaneous collection of interfaces. > Ok, fair enough. If nobody has a strong preference any other way, just make it > drivers/firmware then. Did you mean to say drivers/misc? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale