From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Joseph Garcia , linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: future of drivers/macintosh (was Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:02:45 +0200 Message-Id: <20000802220245.20854@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <398895AC.C6576613@execpc.com> References: <398895AC.C6576613@execpc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >> I don't think there's real need anymore for an adb directory. The only >> file in it would be adb.c. The mouse and kbd drivers are moving to input, >> the controller drivers (Cuda,PMU) do not only ADB but all sort of other >> machine admin tasks (like power control, I2C, ...) and so are needed even >> whithout ADB support as part of "PowerMac" support. Cuda can be shared >> with m68k, maybe PMU too, so drivers/macintosh is not a so bad place for it. > >would it be a prudent move to relocate most of drivers/macintosh to >drivers/char, with the exception of mediabay.c to drivers/block/mac- >mediabay.c? > >Something that fits the current layout scheme in a bi-partisan way. Hum... The system controllers are not char drivers (well, PMU can be occasionally), mediabay is not really a block driver, and I fell those generic char and block drivers are already quite messy. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/