From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Phil Pokorny <ppokorny@penguincomputing.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Location for thermal drivers
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:11:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289603515.20815.6.camel@groeck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112223938.4f2675d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 17:39 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Why does drivers/thermal exist if there are no drivers in it and no maintainer?
>
> It has a maintainer - they are just not listed in MAINTAINERS only in the
> file itself.
>
> > >
> > The framework resides there. Drivers supporting it are in various
> > platform directories.
> >
> > As for why there are no drivers - only the framework - in
> > drivers/thermal, and why there is no maintainer - no idea.
>
> Well I could put it in arch/x86/platform/mrst now we have that structure
> from 2.6.37-rc1 onwards
I thought the driver is for Medfield ? Is that the same ? Or do you mean
you would add platform/medfield ? That might be another option.
Then there is drivers/platform/x86/intel_menlow.c, which has the thermal
driver code for Menlow.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 20:33 Location for thermal drivers Guenter Roeck
2010-11-12 21:53 ` [lm-sensors] " Phil Pokorny
2010-11-12 22:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-11-12 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-12 23:11 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2010-11-13 7:21 ` Phil Pokorny
2010-11-13 14:40 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-11-13 17:01 ` Jean Delvare
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