Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> Andrey Volkov wrote:
> 
> >Hi Greg,
> >
> >While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB
> >MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI  and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard),
> >I bumped with next ambiguity:
> >Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in
> >kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree?
> >Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)?
> >
> >AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so
> >somebody bumped with this problem again in future.
> >
> > 
> >
> Good question.  I was about to submit a patch that created 
> drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a 
> platform_device driver.  Any thoughts on this?

drivers/platform sounds good to me.

thanks,

greg k-h


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