From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Roese Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:59:16 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Correct place for new drivers? In-Reply-To: <1181569665.22906.13.camel@790robothead> References: <1181569665.22906.13.camel@790robothead> Message-ID: <200706111559.17071.sr@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Mike, On Monday 11 June 2007, Mike Panetta wrote: > I want to add some I2C device drivers to my tree and I was wondering > where the correct place to put them would be so any patches I make in > future would be accepted. > > I was thinking drivers/i2c (which does not exist) is that ok? I have > the Philips 2005-1 I2C demo board and I wanted to add support for some > of the devices on there which could possibly be on future devices to > control LED's or power or whatever. I am thinking about eventually > building a board around the AVR32 processor and I may use one or 2 of > these devices, so they would not be added to the tree for no reason (and > surly someone else out there uses I2C devices other then RTC's on their > boards). > > I would also like to eventually add support for the Atmel board > controller on the NGW100 as soon as I figure out how it works. :) > > So basically where is the best place to put a load of I2C drivers? I would suggest to borrow again from the Linux kernel here and put the bus drivers (like ppc4xx-i2c or mpc8xx-i2c) into: drivers/i2c/busses/* and put the device drivers (like your Philips I2C I/O expander device) into: drivers/i2c/chips/* Any other suggestions? Best regards, Stefan ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office at denx.de =====================================================================