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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:11:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFB98EE.9000609@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimWfT_LSLX36oLcSSYNqi4buBiJUQ@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:16, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > It looks as if sigma.c doesn't actually belong into drivers/firmware.
> > That directory is for code that lets the kernel access the firmware
> > of the platform that the kernel itself runs on.
> 
> -EMISSINGBETTERSUGGESTION

I *knew* somebody would ask.  :)

"drivers/firmware" is the obvious name for both, but that makes
it ambiguous.  I'd suggest to split the two subsystems into
"drivers/host-firmware" and "drivers/device-firmware".


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110617103218.GA29723@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-06-17 11:40 ` [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-06-17 13:16   ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-06-17 15:56     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-17 18:11       ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2011-06-17 18:25         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-21  0:35           ` Mark Brown
2011-06-21  1:45             ` [uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-17 15:56   ` Mike Frysinger

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