From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: Use of drivers/platform and matching include? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20131003162519.GA25042@kroah.com> References: <20131003152715.GA15931@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54260 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752421Ab3JCQZX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:25:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Kumar Gala Cc: Linux Kernel list , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:25:19 -0700 Subject: Use of drivers/platform and matching include? In-Reply-To: References: <20131003152715.GA15931@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20131003162519.GA25042@kroah.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.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