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From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
To: Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:29:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com>

Andrey Volkov wrote:

>Hi Greg,
>
>While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB
>MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI  and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard),
>I bumped with next ambiguity:
>Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in
>kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree?
>Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)?
>
>AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so
>somebody bumped with this problem again in future.
>
>  
>
Good question.  I was about to submit a patch that created 
drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a 
platform_device driver.  Any thoughts on this?

Jamey



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-01 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-30 11:52 Where is place of arch independed companion chips? Andrey Volkov
2005-07-31  4:40 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-07-31 12:21   ` Andrey Volkov
2005-08-01 12:29 ` Jamey Hicks [this message]
2005-08-01 18:13   ` Greg KH
2005-08-01 18:38     ` Andrey Volkov
2005-08-02 21:49     ` Richard Purdie
2005-08-03  9:09       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Andrey Volkov
2005-08-08 21:09       ` Mark Underwood
2005-08-03  6:17     ` Pavel Machek

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