From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261571AbVHASQM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:16:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261761AbVHASQM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:16:12 -0400 Received: from lyle.provo.novell.com ([137.65.81.174]:15533 "EHLO lyle.provo.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261571AbVHASOP (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:14:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:13:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jamey Hicks Cc: Andrey Volkov , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips? Message-ID: <20050801181357.GA31144@suse.de> References: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote: > Andrey Volkov wrote: > > >Hi Greg, > > > >While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB > >MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard), > >I bumped with next ambiguity: > >Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in > >kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree? > >Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)? > > > >AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so > >somebody bumped with this problem again in future. > > > > > > > Good question. I was about to submit a patch that created > drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a > platform_device driver. Any thoughts on this? drivers/platform sounds good to me. thanks, greg k-h