From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips? Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:17:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20050803061719.GE1399@elf.ucw.cz> References: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> <20050801181357.GA31144@suse.de> 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 1E0CZL-00065e-PT for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:17:35 -0700 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60] helo=amd.ucw.cz ident=postfix) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1E0CZJ-0000K4-PA for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:17:35 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050801181357.GA31144@suse.de> 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: Greg KH Cc: Jamey Hicks , Andrey Volkov , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Hi! > > >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. We have some problems with ucb1x00 chip on some small systems; originally we wanted it to go into drivers/misc, but that sounded wrong. Latest idea was drivers/mfd (multi functional devices)... Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be. ------------------------------------------------------- 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