Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling

Russell King
2002-09-29T18:22:42Z

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:20:44PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> Let me add that there are currently two places where arch specific drivers
> appear, eg:
>
> arch/{cris,um}/drivers/
> and
> drivers/{s390,macintosh,acorn}/
>
> I think it'd be nice to decide on one way or the other. The first place
> has the advantage of putting all arch-specific stuff into one place, the
> second one makes it (IMO) cleaner to share drivers between e.g. s390 and
> s390x, or possibly i386/x86_64 in the future.

The ARM port used to have arch/arm/drivers/{block,char,net,sound} but
this was decried by _other_ people in the ARM community to be too
painful, and I was literally hounded into moving them into drivers.

I don't want to go back to arch/arm/drivers now, thanks.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux