From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] wireless: adf702x: new driver for ADF7020/21 parts
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:46:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261486016.609.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A42379416420646B9BFAC9682273B6D0EF11EC1@limkexm3.ad.analog.com>
Hi Michael,
> >> This is a driver for Analog Devices series of ADF702x Narrow-Band
> >> Short-Range Radio Transceiver chipsets, including the ADF7021 and
> >> the ADF7025. This Ethernet like driver implements a custom
> >> software PHY.
> >
> >while it might be a little bit confusing, but the wireless directory
> >normally only contains Wireless LAN (aka 802.11 and alike) drivers.
> >
> >If this implements some sort of Ethernet driver, then it might be better
> >to just put it under drivers/net/ to not intermix and confuse it with
> >actually 802.11 drivers.
>
> No problem we can relocate
>
> >
> >> drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 11 +
> >> drivers/net/wireless/Makefile | 2 +
> >> drivers/net/wireless/adf702x.c | 788
> >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> include/linux/spi/adf702x.h | 33 ++
> >> 4 files changed, 834 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/adf702x.c
> >> create mode 100644 include/linux/spi/adf702x.h
> >
> >And why is the header file under SPI includes. It could be as easily in
> >the same directory as the driver *.c file itself. No reason to spread it
> >over the whole tree if nothing else includes it.
>
> It under include/linux/spi/ because it includes platform data which is used by board support files.
that is no argument to move it there. It is a driver specific header and
so keep it in the same location as the driver itself.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-22 2:12 [PATCH] wireless: adf702x: new driver for ADF7020/21 parts Mike Frysinger
2009-12-22 3:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-22 10:38 ` Hennerich, Michael
2009-12-22 12:46 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-12-22 12:56 ` Hennerich, Michael
2009-12-22 13:09 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2009-12-22 3:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-22 11:46 ` Hennerich, Michael
2009-12-22 16:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-19 7:37 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2010-01-19 7:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
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