From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips? Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:13:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20050801181357.GA31144@suse.de> References: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Dzenq-0005Yh-SO for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:14:18 -0700 Received: from lyle.provo.novell.com ([137.65.81.174]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Dzenq-0004ui-Gn for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:14:18 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jamey Hicks Cc: Andrey Volkov , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote: > Andrey Volkov wrote: > > >Hi Greg, > > > >While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB > >MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard), > >I bumped with next ambiguity: > >Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in > >kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree? > >Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)? > > > >AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so > >somebody bumped with this problem again in future. > > > > > > > Good question. I was about to submit a patch that created > drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a > platform_device driver. Any thoughts on this? drivers/platform sounds good to me. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click