From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: arch/powerpc/sysdev: dumping ground or only for shared drivers?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 08:40:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510224000.GA24329@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510215730.GA25075@lixom.net>
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:02:37PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > This is the latest and hopefully last round of patches for adding mv64x60
> > and prpmc2800 support to arch/powerpc. It would be great if this could
> > still get into 2.6.22.
>
> I know Mark wants this merged, and I'm not looking to hold that off,
> however the following came up on IRC and I wanted to move it over here
> for clarification/list archiving of the answers:
>
>
> This adds yet another set of chipset drivers under sysdev, that are
> only used by one platform (several board ports under that platform,
> but only one platforms/* directory).
>
> In my opinion, they really should go under the platform directory instead,
> and not clutter the shared directory.
I concur.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 20:02 [PATCH 0/13] powerpc: Add support for Marvell/mv64x60 and prpmc2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:04 ` [PATCH 1/13] powerpc: Add Makefile rules to wrap dts file in zImage Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 23:29 ` David Gibson
2007-05-11 15:59 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 hostbridge Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell MPSC Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 I2C Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/13] powerpc: Add interrupt support for Marvell mv64x60 chips Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 6/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 MPSC (serial) platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 7/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 ethernet platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 8/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 I2C platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 9/13] powerpc: Add Marvell mv64x60 PCI bridge support Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 10/13] powerpc: check cache coherency of kernel vs firmware Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:44 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-10 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-05-12 11:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 0:00 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 0:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 12:50 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 14:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 1:10 ` David Gibson
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 12/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for " Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 13/13] powerpc: Add arch/powerpc support for the Motorola PrPMC2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:57 ` arch/powerpc/sysdev: dumping ground or only for shared drivers? Olof Johansson
2007-05-10 22:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-11 1:00 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-15 9:53 ` Christian Krafft
2007-05-10 22:40 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-05-10 23:00 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-11 0:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-11 17:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-05-15 21:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 22:06 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-15 22:19 ` Grant Likely
2007-05-15 22:25 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-15 22:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 23:56 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-16 0:32 ` Mark A. Greer
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