From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for talking to PLX PEX8xxx PCIe switch over I2C Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:35:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20140930213306.GA29008@svl-evodev-groeck.juniper.net> References: <542A3593.4020108@gmail.com> <20140930211339.GA1264@katana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140930211339.GA1264@katana> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , Rajat Jain , Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-pci-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , linux-i2c , "linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Rajat Jain List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > > Since this is a driver for a PCIe switch, I currently put it under /driver/pci/. > > > I'm very open to suggestions for moving this around (Does introducing > > > drivers/pci/switch/ seem any better?). Especially I can see that the > > > drivers/pci/Kconfig appears under "Bus Options" in the main menu which does not > > > look like the right place for this driver. I am looking for suggestions here. > > > > Definitely interesting work. I have no idea where to put it. It > > doesn't have anything to do with PCI core services or structures, so > > drivers/pci doesn't seem like the ideal place for it, but I don't have > > any better ideas. If it did end up under drivers/pci, I agree that a > > drivers/pci/switch or something similar would probably be better than > > having it directly in drivers/pci. > > > > Maybe Wolfram or other I2C folks will have an idea. > > Hmm, is this a common interface for those switches? Then a directory > like drivers/pci/switch could make sense. Otherwise I'd suggest > drivers/misc? > We had discussed drivers/misc internally, but it didn't seem to be the right location to me. After all, it is not a misc driver, but a driver to configure a PCIe switch. Not that I have a better idea, though. Guenter