[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] drivers/usb : move usb drivers to drivers/usb

Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-13T23:28:53Z

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:14:26 +0200
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com wrote:

> drivers/usb/serial/
>
> - e.g. serial support

FWIW, Linux seems to be moving away from this structure. USB networking
drivers are now under drivers/net, for example. Rationale (from the
commit log):

It is preferable to group drivers by usage (net, scsi, ATA, ...) than
by bus. When reviewing drivers, the [PCI|USB|PCMCIA|...] maintainer
is probably less qualified on networking issues than a networking
maintainer. Also, from a practical standpoint, chips often
appear on multiple buses, which is why we do not put drivers into
drivers/pci/net.

which doesn't necessarily mean that u-boot should do the same, but I
think we should consider it. Besides, how many USB serial drivers apart
from CDC are there, really?

H?vard