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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:59:16PM -0700, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
> On 3/13/2025 5:48 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 01:30:52PM +0100, David Ahern wrote:
> 
> 
> > > So that means 3 different vendors and 3 different devices looking for a
> > > similar auxbus based hierarchy with a core driver not buried within one
> > > of the subsystems.
> > > 
> > > I guess at this point we just need to move forward with the proposal and
> > > start sending patches.
> > > 
> > > Seems like drivers/core is the consensus for the core driver?
> > 
> > Yes, anything that is not aux_core is fine by me.
> > 
> > drivers/core or drivers/aux.
> 
> Between the two of these I prefer drivers/core - I don't want to see this
> tied to aux for the same reasons we don't want it tied to pci or net.

Decades ago we tried to add drivers/core/ but I think tools really
didn't like to see "core" as a directory name.  Hopefully you all don't
run into that issue here as well :)

Anyway, if you all want me to run that tree as a "neutral" third-party,
I'll be glad to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h