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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/4] mfd: lubbock_cplds: add lubbock IO board
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:24:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201503281424.02583.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv8pwmm0.fsf@free.fr>

On Saturday 28 March 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> It's not as much a problem as a generic question : does a driver belong to
> arch/* ?
> 
> Personaly it would have been far simpler for me to have it through the pxa tree,
> but I want to be sure it's the right place. Others will follow, pxa mainstone is
> such a candidate.
> 
> I was thinking so far that arch/arm/mach-* was for machine description,
> ie. wirings, interconnections, initial setup etc ... The "driver" part, ie. code
> really driving dynamics in IPs was as per my understanding in drivers/...
> 
> Now I can create arch/arm/mach-pxa/lubbock_cplds.c, that won't make any
> difference to me, provided that it's the right thing to do.

If we had a lot of these, we would probably put them somewhere under drivers.
and find a maintainer for them. Given that this is an exceptional case for
an older machine, my feeling is that leaving the code in mach-pxa is the least
effort for now.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-28 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-24 15:05 [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: mfd: add lubbock-cplds binding Robert Jarzmik
2015-01-24 15:05 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mfd: lubbock_cplds: add lubbock IO board Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-16 13:05   ` Lee Jones
2015-02-16 13:27     ` robert.jarzmik at free.fr
2015-02-16 16:27       ` Lee Jones
2015-02-16 22:14         ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-17  7:43           ` Lee Jones
2015-02-17 17:38             ` Nicolas Pitre
2015-02-18  8:07               ` Lee Jones
2015-02-20 16:02                 ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-28  9:57                   ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-28 15:11                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-28 15:29                       ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-03-25 14:07                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-26 21:38                     ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-03-26 23:47                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-28  2:35                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-28  8:29                         ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-03-28 13:24                           ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-01-24 15:05 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] ARM: pxa: lubbock: use new lubbock_cplds driver Robert Jarzmik
2015-01-24 15:05 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] MAINTAINERS: add entry for lubbock-cplds Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-10 18:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: mfd: add lubbock-cplds binding Robert Jarzmik

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