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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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  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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