On Friday 03 June 2011, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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?
Sorry, I misread your first sentence above. I thought you said that you prefer
drivers/firmware over virt/fsl. drivers/misc is definitely the wrong
place for this, please choose a better one. Maybe drivers/virt/ ?
Arnd
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