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

Matt_Domsch
2002-09-30T04:27:04Z

> drivers/{s390,macintosh,acorn}/
> makes it (IMO) cleaner to share drivers between
> e.g. s390 and s390x, or possibly i386/x86_64 in the future.

The i386 EDD "driver" could probably be shared with x86-64, I hadn't thought
about it before. Likewise the IA64 efivars driver *may* eventually be
shared with x86 or others if Intel's plans come to fruition. So I'd vote
for something in drivers/ rather than arch/ for such shareable modules. I'm
open to moving each of these if told where the "right" place should be.
Neither are char or block drivers, so those don't make sense - purely
driverfs/proc interfaces. Nor are they "bus" drivers ala ide or scsi.
drivers/misc is empty and I think people want to keep it that way...

Some ideas for these:
drivers/i386
drivers/efi

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Matt

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