From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:25:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: driver for the character LCD found in ARM refdesigns In-Reply-To: <201007161119.55769.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1278429668-4564-1-git-send-email-triad@df.lth.se> <20100715102237.GI26212@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201007161119.55769.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20100716092531.GC16995@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:19:55AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010, Linus Walleij wrote: > > > Or maybe drivers/platform/arm/ (to avoid Linus' complaint about > > > drivers under arch/ ?) > > > > Creating that for a single driver seems weird, I could just as well > > create drivers/lcd for all LCDs in that case. But there is another > > LCD-like driver for a USB-connected LCD under drivers/misc > > IIRC, maybe I can make a patch for that as well and let the misc > > maintainer decide if he wants it. > > Most drivers are in directories based on the software interface, but > as you explained, the driver does not interface with anything so far. > > Other display drivers are under drivers/video. If it makes sense > to use the display as the console, you could put it in > drivers/video/console/. Another option would be to make it > a tty and move it to driver/char. It's a 2 line by 8 character LCD. I don't think it makes sense for it to be a console or even a tty driver.