From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263000AbVHEMay (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:30:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263001AbVHEMax (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:30:53 -0400 Received: from crl-mail-dmz.crl.hpl.hp.com ([192.58.210.9]:64228 "EHLO crl-mailb.crl.dec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263000AbVHEMav (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:30:51 -0400 Message-ID: <42F35BAA.1070506@hp.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:29:30 -0400 From: Jamey Hicks User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie CC: Andrew Morton , 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 References: <200508050719.j757J9KO032652@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1123228133.7649.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1123228133.7649.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 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