Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 1/1] altix: Device driver support for the CX port of SGI's TIO chip

Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-02T21:40:33Z

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:21:43AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2005 8:47 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > (care to split this into a two-patch series for the next submission,
> > one for tiocx, one for mbcs?)
> >
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_TIOCX) += tiocx.o
> >
> > this one should really be in arch/ia64/sn/
>
> Even though it's a char driver? I told him to put it in drivers/char to make
> API change sweeps a bit easier... Fine with me if it ends up in arch/ia64/sn
> though.

The tiocx driver is a bus driver for the CX bus, mbcs is the char driver.