From: gregkh@suse.de (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:58:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110225035857.GA9985@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8yavd08bwgi.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:54:21PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24 2011, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > drivers/ssbi? What's keeping this from later moving off of the msm
> > chips to run on others? USB started out only on one processor, as did a
> > lot of other bus-specific drivers, before the hardware became present on
> > other architectures. So no need to bury it under a msm specific
> > location.
>
> Not sure if anything is stopping it from moving off of MSM chips, but it
> doesn't seem very likely. There are too many similar interfaces that
> are standard that others would be likely to use. For the most part, it
> is the bus to communicate between the MSM and it's specialized
> peripherals.
>
> We can still put it there, but it will likely be the only driver ever in
> the directory.
Ah, so it's just one driver? Then how about drivers/platform/msm/ ?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 22:19 [PATCH v2 0/2] msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver Kenneth Heitke
2011-02-24 22:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/msm to MSM subsystem Kenneth Heitke
2011-02-24 23:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-24 22:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver Kenneth Heitke
2011-02-25 2:23 ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-25 2:31 ` David Brown
2011-02-25 2:35 ` Daniel Walker
2011-02-25 2:39 ` Dima Zavin
2011-02-25 3:20 ` David Brown
2011-02-25 3:28 ` Greg KH
2011-02-25 3:54 ` David Brown
2011-02-25 3:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-25 4:06 ` David Brown
2011-02-25 19:00 ` David Brown
2011-02-25 20:21 ` Brian Swetland
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