From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:04:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051224140406.GB9840@plexity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051221135230.GA22807@xi.wantstofly.org>
On Dec 21 2005, at 14:52, Lennert Buytenhek was caught saying:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
>
> > The main question I have is, where should the IXP4xx access-library
> > be located in the kernel directory structure?
>
> Maybe you can explain to the list readers what it is and what it does?
>
> If it's ixp4xx-specific, arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx might just be the best
> place. The ixp2000 microengine loader was put into arch/arm/mach-ixp2000
> for mostly that reason (being ixp2000-specific), while the ethernet driver
> that uses that microengine loader will live under drivers/net/.
The access library is also used by the ixp2350 and will be used by next
generation Intel parts, so it needs to go somewhere common.
arch/arm/common or maybe drivers/net/ixp.
~Deepak
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[not found] <20051220230806.619131000@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <200512211300.38163.sr@denx.de>
2005-12-21 13:52 ` Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary) Lennert Buytenhek
[not found] ` <200512211548.23070.sr@denx.de>
2005-12-21 23:37 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-12-24 14:07 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-24 16:36 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-27 9:54 ` Stefan Roese
[not found] ` <1135691390.5818.99.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2005-12-27 23:06 ` Deepak Saxena
[not found] ` <m3fyoek4yl.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
2005-12-27 23:11 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-27 9:45 ` Stefan Roese
2005-12-27 23:12 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-24 14:04 ` Deepak Saxena [this message]
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