Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver

Timur Tabi <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:20:50 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-console,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
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Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> For the spi flash driver that goes through the hypervisor abstraction,
> I think drivers/virt/tile would be better than driver/platform/tile,
> but we should really have a new "abstract flash character driver" subsystem
> for that.

Why should it matter that the SPI flash driver goes through the hypervisor
abstration?  One of the patches in this patchset is a TTY driver that goes
through the Freescale hypervisor.  I put the drivers in drivers/tty.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale