From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754505AbaHKSiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:38:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52540 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754376AbaHKSiA (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:38:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:37:20 +0800 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Stuart Yoder Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" , Jose Rivera Subject: Re: location for new bus driver-- drivers/bus? drivers/misc? Message-ID: <20140811183720.GC32566@kroah.com> References: <9953b08b77224e738a1a1672dcf209c5@BY2PR0301MB0743.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9953b08b77224e738a1a1672dcf209c5@BY2PR0301MB0743.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:25:49PM +0000, Stuart Yoder wrote: > Greg, > > We (Freescale) have a patch series nearly ready to send out > for a new bus driver. It's for a block we call the Freescale > 'Management Complex' which manages discoverable hardware objects. > The Linux bus driver enumerates these objects, binds discovered > objects to drivers just like PCI or any normal bus driver. Sounds good. > Question is-- where should this go in the kernel and who would > the maintainer be to cc: the RFC? I don't think it warrants > a top level driver directory beside pci, usb, etc. Most likely > place is drivers/bus or drivers/misc (?). > > We currently have it in drivers/bus, but as far as I can see > there is no maintainer per se for that directory. You and > Arnd manage misc so thought I would ask. I don't remember why drivers/bus/ came about, Arnd, you created it, should we be putting random bus controllers in this directory? And if so, sure, I can maintain drivers/bus/ along with the misc/char drivers, it's not a big deal. thanks, greg k-h