From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262166AbVHCJJV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262168AbVHCJJV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:09:21 -0400 Received: from [195.144.244.147] ([195.144.244.147]:44191 "EHLO amanaus.varma-el.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262166AbVHCJJO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:09:14 -0400 Message-ID: <42F089B6.8000304@varma-el.com> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:09:10 +0400 From: Andrey Volkov Organization: Varma Electronics Oy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: ru-ru, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Greg KH , Jamey Hicks , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rpurdie@rpsys.net, tony.luck@intel.com, edwardsg@sgi.com Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips? References: <42EB6A12.70100@varma-el.com> <42EE15AF.5050902@hp.com> <20050801181357.GA31144@suse.de> <1123019379.7782.86.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1123019379.7782.86.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >>>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? >> >>drivers/platform sounds good to me. > > > In another thread (about the ucb1x00) we came up with the idea of > drivers/mfd (mfd = multi function devices). > > The core and platform specific parts would live here with suitable clear > naming and the subsection specific parts that were separable would live > in the appropriate place within the kernel. > > Just another idea to add to the mix and removes the dilemma of a > multifunction device with isn't platform based... > drivers/mfd as drivers/mfd, I have not objections. Who will send the patch first? -- Regards Andrey Volkov P.S. Tony, Greg, may be it will someone from you? (I've in mind sn/ subdir)