From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261820AbVHAMaA (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:30:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261822AbVHAMaA (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:30:00 -0400 Received: from crl-mail-dmz.crl.hpl.hp.com ([192.58.210.9]:10159 "EHLO crl-mailb.crl.dec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261820AbVHAM37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:29:59 -0400 Message-ID: <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:29:35 -0400 From: Jamey Hicks User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrey Volkov 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? References: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> In-Reply-To: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HPLC-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-HPLC-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPLC-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, required 5, BAYES_00 -4.90) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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