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From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jamey@handhelds.org,
	anpaza@mail.ru, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: platform-device-driver-for-mq11xx-graphics-chip.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:29:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F35BAA.1070506@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123228133.7649.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Richard Purdie wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:18 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
>  
>
>>The patch titled
>>
>>     platform-device driver for MQ11xx graphics chip
>>
>>has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>>
>>     platform-device-driver-for-mq11xx-graphics-chip.patch
>>
>> drivers/platform/.tmp_versions/mq11xx_base.mod |    2 
>>    
>>
>
>I doubt that should be there...
>
>  
>
>> drivers/platform/Kconfig                       |   23 
>> drivers/platform/Makefile                      |    5 
>> drivers/platform/mq11xx.h                      |  925 ++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/platform/mq11xx_base.c                 | 1390 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>    
>>
>
>I'm also still wondering if drivers/mfd would be better in the long term
>for code like this (as mentioned in various threads on LKML). That way
>it is doesn't have to be platform device specific...
>
>  
>
I do not have a problem with moving these drivers to drivers/mfd.  I do 
want to have a policy that says where such drivers should go.

Jamey


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-05 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200508050719.j757J9KO032652@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2005-08-05  7:48 ` platform-device-driver-for-mq11xx-graphics-chip.patch added to -mm tree Richard Purdie
2005-08-05  7:59   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-05 12:29   ` Jamey Hicks [this message]
2005-08-08 18:52     ` Russell King
2005-08-08 20:25       ` Jamey Hicks
2005-08-05 13:43 ` Alexey Dobriyan

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