From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Use of drivers/platform and matching include?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003162519.GA25042@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B674A07C-F8FE-4F4D-BB0A-87D5A50852D0@codeaurora.org>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:21:10AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> As we look at upstreaming more support for the Qualcomm MSM SoCs there
> >> are a number of drivers or library like routines that are unique to
> >> the MSM platform, we are thinking that putting them under:
> >>
> >> drivers/platform/qcom/
> >
> > What type of drivers are these? Shouldn't they really go under the
> > specific driver type directory instead?
>
> If there isn't an existing driver/ dir for this I dont see how it can go there, I'm not also not really a fan of trying to artificial put something that is highly SoC specific into something generic of this nature.
Loose a line-wrap somewhere?...
Anyway, you didn't answer my question, so why do I need to answer yours?
snarkily,
greg k-h
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Use of drivers/platform and matching include?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003162519.GA25042@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B674A07C-F8FE-4F4D-BB0A-87D5A50852D0@codeaurora.org>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:21:10AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> As we look at upstreaming more support for the Qualcomm MSM SoCs there
> >> are a number of drivers or library like routines that are unique to
> >> the MSM platform, we are thinking that putting them under:
> >>
> >> drivers/platform/qcom/
> >
> > What type of drivers are these? Shouldn't they really go under the
> > specific driver type directory instead?
>
> If there isn't an existing driver/ dir for this I dont see how it can go there, I'm not also not really a fan of trying to artificial put something that is highly SoC specific into something generic of this nature.
Loose a line-wrap somewhere?...
Anyway, you didn't answer my question, so why do I need to answer yours?
snarkily,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-03 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 14:45 Use of drivers/platform and matching include? Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 14:45 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 15:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-03 15:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-03 16:21 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 16:21 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 16:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-10-03 16:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-03 16:38 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 16:38 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 16:46 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-03 16:46 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-03 17:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-03 17:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-03 17:54 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-03 17:54 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-04 11:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-04 11:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-04 11:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 11:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 11:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 11:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 12:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-04 12:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-04 11:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 11:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-04 13:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-04 13:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-04 16:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-04 16:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-04 19:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04 19:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-04 19:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-10-05 17:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-05 17:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-08 0:26 ` Rohit Vaswani
2013-10-08 0:26 ` Rohit Vaswani
2013-10-08 2:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-08 2:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-07 6:48 ` Andi Shyti
2013-10-07 6:48 ` Andi Shyti
2013-10-08 17:57 ` Rohit Vaswani
2013-10-08 17:57 ` Rohit Vaswani
2013-10-09 6:04 ` Andi Shyti
2013-10-09 6:04 ` Andi Shyti
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