From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:10:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20120412141050.GA31968@kroah.com> References: <1331934707-29487-1-git-send-email-aneesh@ti.com> <20120412030044.GA26236@kroah.com> <4F867A95.9030104@ti.com> <20120412131045.GB31384@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Mohammed, Afzal" Cc: "Shilimkar, Santosh" , Paul Walmsley , "V, Aneesh" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "mgreer@animalcreek.com" , "msalter@redhat.com" List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:34:15PM +0000, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:40:45, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:17:49PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > > > I was hoping that we will have some thing like drivers/memory/* > > > but since it doesn't exist, we used drivers/misc. > > > > Why not create it? I have no objection to that, it makes it more > > obvious as to what this really is. > > There is another memory controller used in a few TI SoCs, > namely GPMC [1], do you prefer having it too there. Sure, why not? > As of now it is not a driver, platform code handles GPMC, a patch > series for converting it into a driver (but still residing in > platform folder) was sent a few days back [2,3]. People are moving things out of the platform folder, so drivers/memory makes sense. thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:10:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v4 0/7] Add TI EMIF SDRAM controller driver In-Reply-To: References: <1331934707-29487-1-git-send-email-aneesh@ti.com> <20120412030044.GA26236@kroah.com> <4F867A95.9030104@ti.com> <20120412131045.GB31384@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20120412141050.GA31968@kroah.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:34:15PM +0000, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 18:40:45, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:17:49PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > > > I was hoping that we will have some thing like drivers/memory/* > > > but since it doesn't exist, we used drivers/misc. > > > > Why not create it? I have no objection to that, it makes it more > > obvious as to what this really is. > > There is another memory controller used in a few TI SoCs, > namely GPMC [1], do you prefer having it too there. Sure, why not? > As of now it is not a driver, platform code handles GPMC, a patch > series for converting it into a driver (but still residing in > platform folder) was sent a few days back [2,3]. People are moving things out of the platform folder, so drivers/memory makes sense. thanks, greg k-h