From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:40:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 1/1] altix: Device driver support for the CX port of SGI's TIO chip
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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.