From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rpjday@crashcourse.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bogus use of rc = alloc_chrdev_region()
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:17:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106142017.41558.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinrbrsEORxMd96K2obvfGjswegP+g@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 14 June 2011 18:23:50 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > On the topic of drivers/char/{nsc_gpio,pc8736x_gpio,scx200_gpio}, I wonder
> > if we should move them to drivers/gpio/nsc_gpio despite the fact that they
> > use a different (older) interface than all the other gpio drivers.
>
> I have no problem with moving them into drivers/gpio. When you do,
> please rename then drivers/gpio/gpio-*.c
Ok. Should they be in a subdirectory drivers/gpio/nsc_gpio/gpio_* for the
nonstandard API or do you prefer them to live amongst the regular ones?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1307079502-6326-1-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
2011-06-10 20:29 ` [PATCH] fix bogus use of rc = alloc_chrdev_region() Jim Cromie
2011-06-10 20:44 ` Greg KH
2011-06-14 14:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 16:23 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-14 18:17 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-06-14 18:23 ` Jim Cromie
2011-06-14 19:19 ` Grant Likely
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