Re: [PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4-rc1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:13:10PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:07:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:00:37AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:16:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > ChangeSet 1.1612.17.5, 2004/02/27 11:40:29-08:00, masbock@us.ibm.com
> > > > 
> > > > [PATCH] Driver for IBM service processor - updated (1/2)
> > > 
> > > please don't put anything into drivers/misc for now.  We might over to it,
> > > but then we should do it for all drivers we think it makes sense instead
> > > of random ones.
> > 
> > Hm, well where do you feel I should move this driver to in the tree
> > then?
> 
> Currently drivers/char/ is the catchall for random gunk.

Yeah, but this driver does not even have a char interface, otherwise I
would have no problem adding this there.

> But given that
> there seem to be more and more such service processors around it might be
> a good idea to just give them a directory udner drivers/ for themselves.

How about drivers/sp or drivers/service_processor?  I'd be glad to
rename the misc directory to that and clear up two issues at once :)

thanks,

greg k-h