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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Start split out of common open firmware code
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:30:29 +0200
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>> drivers/ is the wrong place to put this IMHO.  Why not
>> use kernel/openfirmware/*.[ch] ?
>
> We have drivers/acpi as a precedent ...

That doesn't mean it's a good place for firmware interface
code, it just means that the ACPI code currently lives
there :-)


Segher