From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Shilimkar, Santosh) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:40:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2 6/9] misc: Generic on-chip SRAM allocation driver In-Reply-To: <1346405848.5316.11.camel@coredoba.hi.pengutronix.de> References: <1346405224-20399-1-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> <1346405224-20399-7-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> <1346405848.5316.11.camel@coredoba.hi.pengutronix.de> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Jan L?bbe wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 11:27 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote: > > This driver requests and remaps a memory region as configured in the > > device tree. It serves memory from this region via the genalloc API. > > > > Other drivers can retrieve the genalloc pool from a phandle pointing > > to this drivers' device node in the device tree. > > > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel > > --- > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 8 ++++ > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/misc/sram.c | 105 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 3 files changed, 114 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/sram.c > > We now have drivers/memory, which seems to be a good place for this. > drivers/memory is created for Memory controller device drivers. SRAM is just pool of memory and should belong to some other place. Regards Santosh