From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752702AbcCNWGE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:06:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53991 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751391AbcCNWGB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:06:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:05:59 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kyle Roeschley Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff.westfahl@ni.com, joshc@ni.com, nathan.sullivan@ni.com, xander.huff@ni.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: add nirtfeatures driver Message-ID: <20160314220559.GA18771@kroah.com> References: <1457992472-18680-1-git-send-email-kyle.roeschley@ni.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1457992472-18680-1-git-send-email-kyle.roeschley@ni.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:54:32PM -0500, Kyle Roeschley wrote: > From: Jeff Westfahl > > This driver introduces support for hardware features of National > Instruments real-time controllers. This is an ACPI device that exposes > LEDs, switches, and watchdogs. If it's an acpi driver, why not put it in drivers/acpi? why misc? Also, please get the acpi driver developers to review this. thanks, greg k-h