From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933016Ab0KLXMj (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:12:39 -0500 Received: from imr3.ericy.com ([198.24.6.13]:59721 "EHLO imr3.ericy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932584Ab0KLXMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:12:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Location for thermal drivers From: Guenter Roeck Reply-To: guenter.roeck@ericsson.com To: Alan Cox CC: Phil Pokorny , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" In-Reply-To: <20101112223938.4f2675d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1289594026.22931.388.camel@groeck-laptop> <1289599600.22931.406.camel@groeck-laptop> <20101112223938.4f2675d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Ericsson Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:11:55 -0800 Message-ID: <1289603515.20815.6.camel@groeck-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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