Re: [PATCH 9/10] introduce intel_menlow platform specific driver

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Monday 21 January 2008 04:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:51:17PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
> > 
> > Intel menlow platform specific driver for thermal management.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/Kconfig        |   10 
> >  drivers/misc/Makefile       |    1 
> >  drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c |  527 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Why is this in drivers/misc?  I don't have a thermal.h in mainline, but
> if this is a new subsystem your adding care to create a directory under
> drivers/ for it?

Hi Christoph,

I'm sure it was me who suggested putting intel_menlo.c under drivers/misc.

A while back I refused to let any new platform specific drivers under
drivers/acpi, and asked that the ones here already move out.
This is because they happne to use ACPI, but are not actually
part of the ACPI sub-system (any more than ATA is).
Also, I wanted the maintainer roles to be clear -- these
drivers have primary maintainers other than me, and those
guys are in the heroic, but tragic, business of writing
platform-specific drivers for systems with no documentation or vendor support.

drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c
drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c
drivers/misc/msi-laptop.c
drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c

intel_menlo.c fits in with this group, the only difference is that
its primary maintainers actually have documentation:-)

is there a better place than drivers/misc for this group?

thanks,
-Len