Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

Russell King
2007-05-01T19:28:02Z

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:18:21PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Well, while description catches the essence of course, TLA is
> far from being perfect: 1) Completely unknown; 2) can be easily
> confused with mtd.
>
> But it's even more funny: there *is* drivers/mfd/ already in
> mainline. I'd say that we were blind, but even you say "proposed", not
> "exists", nor anybody else brought that to attention. I'm afraid, that
> proves point 1 above ;-).

It's only unknown to communities which do not read this mailing list.

drivers/mfd was suggested after discussion here about where to put the
UCB1[23]00 device drivers, since it was felt that drivers/misc was
inappropriate.

There's not much infrastructure there though.

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Russell King
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