From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Arjan Van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
lenz@cs.wisc.edu, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:49:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050731224959.GD27580@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122849209.7626.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Hi!
> > As this isn't the only chip of this sort (i.e. a
> > multi-function chip not on the CPU bus) maybe we
> > should store the bus driver in a common place. If
> > needed we could have a very simple bus driver
> > subsystem (this might already be in the kernel, I
> > haven't looked at the bus stuff) in which you register
> > a bus driver and client drivers register with the bus
> > driver. Just an idea :-).
>
> This was the idea with the drivers/soc suggestion although I think that
> name is perhaps misleading.
>
> How about drivers/mfd where mfd = Multi Functional Devices?
>
> I think it would be acceptable (and in keeping with the other drivers
> e.g. pcmcia) to seeing the arch and platform specific modules with the
> main driver as long as the naming reflected it (like the existing mcp
> and ucb code does) i.e.:
>
> mcp-core.c
> mcp-sa1100.c
> ucb1x00-code.c
> ucb1x00-assabet.c
> ucb1x00-collie.c
>
> If code can be separated out into subsystems, I'm not so sure where they
> should go though. The existing policy would suggest
> drivers/input/touchscreen and sound/xxx for these...
>
> ucb1x00-ts.c
> ucb1x00-audio.c
>
> Opinions/Comments?
drivers/mfd sounds good, and yes, touchscreen and audio should go
where they belong.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-31 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 7:46 [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups Pavel Machek
2005-07-26 8:04 ` Mark Underwood
2005-07-26 8:07 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-30 9:22 ` Russell King
2005-07-30 11:33 ` Mark Underwood
2005-07-30 20:28 ` Russell King
2005-07-30 20:46 ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-30 21:03 ` Russell King
2005-07-31 22:11 ` Mark Underwood
2005-07-31 22:33 ` Richard Purdie
2005-07-31 22:49 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-01 8:02 ` How do we handle multi-function devices? [was Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups] Mark Underwood
2005-07-30 9:17 ` [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups Russell King
2005-07-30 9:23 ` Pavel Machek
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