From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110630183002.GA9314@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinciPSnJHHsMo8nfvsYS1AeDov5Tw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:23:03PM -0500, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
> <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > drivers/cpufreq/powerpc. However my current version (as suggested by Ben)
> > goes directly to drivers/cpufreq
> >
> Uh ... Just curious ... why is arch specific code now being put
> outside of the arch directories? When I wrote the 750GX stuff
> (~2.6.28) I put in a location similar to what x86 was doing? When did
> this change?
last release, ARM moved their cpufreq drivers. I moved the x86 ones afterwards.
There's precedent for other arch specific drivers in drivers/ too, but the
cpufreq move is a recent thing.
Dave
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110630183002.GA9314@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinciPSnJHHsMo8nfvsYS1AeDov5Tw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:23:03PM -0500, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
> <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > drivers/cpufreq/powerpc. However my current version (as suggested by Ben)
> > goes directly to drivers/cpufreq
> >
> Uh ... Just curious ... why is arch specific code now being put
> outside of the arch directories? When I wrote the 750GX stuff
> (~2.6.28) I put in a location similar to what x86 was doing? When did
> this change?
last release, ARM moved their cpufreq drivers. I moved the x86 ones afterwards.
There's precedent for other arch specific drivers in drivers/ too, but the
cpufreq move is a recent thing.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-30 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 13:10 [PATCH 1/2] ppc: enable scom access functions on Maple Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-17 13:10 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-17 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-17 13:10 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-29 3:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-29 3:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-29 3:43 ` Dave Jones
2011-06-29 3:43 ` Dave Jones
2011-06-29 8:40 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-29 8:40 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-29 8:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-29 8:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-29 18:25 ` kevin diggs
2011-06-29 18:09 ` kevin diggs
2011-06-29 18:09 ` kevin diggs
2011-06-29 20:58 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-29 20:58 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-30 18:23 ` kevin diggs
2011-06-30 18:23 ` kevin diggs
2011-06-30 18:30 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2011-06-30 18:30 ` Dave Jones
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