From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [RFC 26/72] arm: Move the ARM/ACORN drivers Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:53:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20110625155356.GI23234@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1309010363-22750-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <1309010363-22750-27-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <201106251648.03574.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Kirsher , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Sriram , Vinay Hegde , Cyril Chemparathy , Wan ZongShun , Lennert Buytenhek , Krzysztof Halasa , Anant Gole , Chaithrika U S To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:38336 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751917Ab1FYPyR (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:54:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106251648.03574.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:48:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2011, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > Move the ARM/ACORN drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/arm/ and make the > > necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes. > > There were 4 drivers (TI Davinci & ftmac100) not in the > > drivers/net/arm/ which should have been since they are only supported > > under ARM, so they were added to the new directory structure. > > > > NOTE: There are no "maintainers" for the TI Davinci drivers, so I am > > CC'ing the last 3 major contributors from TI. > > It doesn't seem logical to group drivers that are used on ARM under > the architecture when the hardware is not actually made by ARM Ltd. ARM doesn't make any silicon hardware itself, so by that argument it shouldn't be in a directory called 'arm' at all. However, what the 'arm' in drivers/net/arm is referring to is that the drivers are solely used with stuff associated with arch/arm, not that there's any connection with ARM Ltd.