Messages in this thread | | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] add bus driver for Unisys s-Par paravirtualized devices to arch/x86 | Date | Wed, 18 May 2016 12:03:58 -0400 |
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Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:49:53PM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> > Ok, but still no need to put it under arch/ anything, it should go in >> > drivers/ like all other drivers and busses are, no matter what the arch >> > it happens to run on is. >> >> I don't think thats obvious. arch/x86/kvm is an example of this, Sparc >> and PPC also have their stuff under arch/. > > For some things, yes, but let's not make the same mistakes as others :) > > Look at drivers/hv/ for an example of a very x86-only bus and driver > subsystem living in drivers/ Please don't burry driver stuff in arch/ > the ARM developers are trying to fix their mistakes of the past and move > all of their cruft out of arch/ for that reason.
Works for me.
So should they put it in drivers/visorbus or drivers/bus/visorbus? What about drivers/virt? Would you suggest hv and xen gets moved in there?
Cheers, Jes
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