From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <9e4733910710241256y565fe464j7b135e1ba14e3923@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:56:15 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Timur Tabi" Subject: Re: Audio codec device tree entries In-Reply-To: <471F9FE5.7040808@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <9e4733910710221859q6ea54810nba58907d5ddd966d@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910710240828x412f598dy7fc4a75faa76358d@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910710240854y6ac115b6i5e0400eb369fcf7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910710241001g165e7aeatdc92096544fbeb60@mail.gmail.com> <471F7D28.6050107@freescale.com> <9e4733910710241231h9427223kbfcc23be2e111194@mail.gmail.com> <471F9FE5.7040808@freescale.com> Cc: PowerPC dev list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 10/24/07, Timur Tabi wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Why are you using a vendor named directory? I don't believe vendor > > named directories are used anywhere in the kernel. The directories are > > always named after the platform or architecture. Vendor directories > > end up in a big mess if Freescale decides to sell a CPU to someone > > else. > > Two reasons: > > 1) The sound/soc directory already has names like "at91" and "pxa", so I thought > "fsl" is appropriate. pxa is the processor family. Intel sold the pxa cpus to Marvell six months ago. > > 2) There may not be any directories named "fsl", but there are plenty of files > with that name: > > ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.c > ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.h > ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.o > ./arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c > ./arch/powerpc/platforms/fsl_uli1575.c > ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c > ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.h > ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c > ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.h > ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.o > ./arch/ppc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c > ./drivers/usb/gadget/fsl_usb2_udc.c > ./drivers/usb/gadget/fsl_usb2_udc.h > ./include/linux/fsl_devices.h > ./include/config/fsl > > Having said all that, if you really think sound/soc/powerpc is better than > sound/soc/fsl, I won't complain. > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com