Re: drivers/x86 (Was: Re: linux-next: Tree for November 28 (misc/tc1100))

Ingo Molnar
2008-11-29T09:34:34Z

* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Len,
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:55:08 -0800 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.o', needed by `drivers/misc/built-in.o'.
> >
> > on allmodconfig & allyesconfig for i386.
> >
> > On, moved to drivers/x86/. Someone needs to clean up drivers/misc/Makefile.
>
> Just wondering where the move to drivers/x86 was discussed, (reviewed
> and tested) and why the change is in the acpi tree and not the x86
> tree?

it will all conflict with pending bits in the x86 tree, so i'd prefer if
Len did this atomically after 2.6.29-rc1, without it having this
long-term breakage effect.

Historically drivers/misc/ has been more active via the ACPI tree. (Len
being the (in-)voluntary maintainer for those platform details)

So drivers/x86/ makes sense i guess. Eventually the really lowlevel bits
might move to arch/x86/drivers/ or so - but i've got no strong opinion on
it. There seems to be enough precedent of existing drivers/$ARCH
hierarchies.

Ingo