From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: [PATCH] i2c: chips subdirectory is deprecated Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:55:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20080310215506.1bdfd9fe@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org To: Linux I2C List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Let driver authors know that drivers/i2c/chips is usually the wrong place for new drivers. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.25-rc5.orig/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile 2008-02-11 09:48:54.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile 2008-03-10 21:50:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ # # Makefile for miscellaneous I2C chip drivers. # +# Think twice before you add a new driver to this directory. +# Device drivers are better grouped according to the functionality they +# implement rather than to the bus they are connected to. In particular: +# * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon +# * RTC chip drivers go to drivers/rtc +# * I/O expander drivers go to drivers/gpio +# obj-$(CONFIG_DS1682) += ds1682.o obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM) += eeprom.o -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c