Re: [GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.10-rc1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the big char / misc driver update for 3.10-rc1
> 
> Ugh. What the f*ck is up with stuff like this:
> 
> >  drivers/ssbi/Kconfig                               |  16 +
> >  drivers/ssbi/Makefile                              |   1 +
> >  drivers/ssbi/ssbi.c                                | 379 ++++++++++++++
> 
> Seriously? "ssbi" is such a major driver subsystem that it needs its
> own subdirectory at the top level?
> 
> We can't just go adding random single drivers at the top level. Now,
> giving it a subdirectory of its own is certainly fine (there should be
> more drivers that decide "I'll put my files away from others", but it
> should be under drivers/misc/ or something. There's no way this is at
> the same level as "networking" or "pci".

It's a "bus" type, that has individual drivers connecting to it.  I'm
pretty sure that David (now on to:) has a bunch more drivers queued up
for this directory, right David?

Now if we want to have a drivers/buses/ where we put these things,
that's fine with me, but so far, we seem to put new bus types directly
in drivers/

thanks,

greg k-h