Re: [PATCH] spi: reorganize drivers

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:21:07 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I'd say it only makes sense if we do it for all busses ... so USB and
> > PCI would have to move too.  Logically, the bus code should move and we
> > should be left with the drivers in both of those directories.  I'd also
> > say that we don't have to deepen the tree: /bus would be fine.  That
> > way, /drivers/<bus> would be only for <bus> specific drivers, with non
> > bus specific drivers we just group them by function as now.
> 
> A top-level /bus would work for me, and I guess would also address Russell's
> concern. Regarding bus-specific drivers, we're gradually moving those out
> of the bus specific directories anyway, basically the only bus directory
> that really has device driver in it is USB at this point. It makes some
> sense to have a bus-specific low-level user space interface driver like
> sg or uio in the bus directory, but everything else should really belong
> into some other subsystem.

Err, what about I2C and SPI? Aren't drivers/i2c/busses and drivers/spi
full of "device drivers"? Or are these what you call "bus-specific
drivers"? Maybe we need to define all the terms before the discussion
continues further.

> (...)
> This is about to get worse as we introduce new subsystems (e.g. iommu,
> irq, clocksource, eeprom, nvram, ...) into which we are moving
> code from arch/arm, drivers/char and drivers/misc. Having buses and
> drivers in a separate hierarchy would make the drivers directory and
> the respective menuconfig list more clearly structured IMHO.

This gets interesting. Would you suggest for example that i2c-core.c
goes to bus/i2c, and drivers/i2c/busses becomes drivers/i2c? And that
CONFIG_I2C is somewhere in menuconfig, and the hardware driver
selection for drivers/i2c is in a totally different place?

While I am surprised, I am not necessarily objecting. But it seems that
you should better define what your actual plan is, before asking us if
we agree with it.

-- 
Jean Delvare