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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:23:06 -0800
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] capemgr: Beaglebone DT overlay based cape manager
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* Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> [130107 12:16]:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > * Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> [130107 10:54]:
> >> A cape loader based on DT overlays and DT objects.
> >> 
> >> Beaglebone cape manager implementation.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig            |    2 +
> >> drivers/misc/Kconfig                   |    2 +
> >> drivers/misc/Makefile                  |    1 +
> >> drivers/misc/cape/Kconfig              |    5 +
> >> drivers/misc/cape/Makefile             |    5 +
> >> drivers/misc/cape/beaglebone/Kconfig   |   11 +
> >> drivers/misc/cape/beaglebone/Makefile  |    5 +
> >> drivers/misc/cape/beaglebone/capemgr.c | 1835 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > The driver should probably be in drivers/bus?
> > 
> 
> It was a bus on the previous iteration and there was a flame storm of epic proportions.

Heh :)
 
> It is not a bus at all now, it's just a device loader; there are no
> bus constructs at all. I am at a loss to classify it really, so drivers/misc
> where every misfit ends up sounded OK.

Right..

> I'm open to suggestions though.

Well how about split it to an eeprom driver, and Linux generic
device loader parts?

Regards,

Tony