Re: [PATCH] Soekris net5501 board support code

[Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:55:06 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> >>  arch/x86/Kconfig          |    9 +++
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile  |    1 
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/soekris.c |  128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > You might want to tell the x86 maintainers about this :)
> 
> The current consensus (to the extent that one exists) seems to be that
> platform device drivers belong in drivers[/platform]/x86, instead of in
> arch/x86.  drivers/platform doesn't exist in the current -linus tree,
> but Len Brown has patches to do it which should be pushed upstream in
> this merge window.  In the meantime, use the old name drivers/misc (a
> misnomer today, but won't be for much longer.)

 Hi Peter,

   I'm awaiting feedback from the geode mailing list to see if they
 want to move to the GPIO class and thus instantiate the GPIO
 devices in geode_32.c.

 The remaining pieces (LEDS) could then be moved to drivers/platform, even if
 it's not a real driver.

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it