Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] acrn: add the ACRN driver module

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:39:32AM +0800, Zhao, Yakui wrote:
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> On 2019å08æ16æ 15:03, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:39:25AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:25:41AM +0800, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> > > > The first three patches are the changes under x86/acrn, which adds the
> > > > required APIs for the driver and reports the X2APIC caps.
> > > > The remaining patches add the ACRN driver module, which accepts the ioctl
> > > > from user-space and then communicate with the low-level ACRN hypervisor
> > > > by using hypercall.
> > > 
> > > I have a problem with that: you're adding interfaces to arch/x86/ and
> > > its users go into staging. Why? Why not directly put the driver where
> > > it belongs, clean it up properly and submit it like everything else is
> > > submitted?
> > > 
> > > I don't want to have stuff in arch/x86/ which is used solely by code in
> > > staging and the latter is lingering there indefinitely because no one is
> > > cleaning it up...
> > 
> > I agree, stuff in drivers/staging/ must be self-contained, with no
> > changes outside of the code's subdirectory needed in order for it to
> > work.  That way it is trivial for us to delete it when it never gets
> > cleaned up :)
> 
> Thanks for pointing out the rule of drivers/staging.
> The acrn staging driver is one self-contained driver. But it has some
> dependency on arch/x86/acrn and need to call the APIs in arch/x86/acrn.

Then it should not be in drivers/staging/  Please work to get this
accepted "normally".

thanks,

greg k-h