From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 <qiang.zhao@freescale•com>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
Xie Xiaobo-R63061 <X.Xie@freescale•com>
Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:15:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1407356142.7427.41.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61b449dd79754d25ace3701ccebe10e2@BLUPR03MB341.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 03:53 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:19 AM, Wood Scott wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:19 AM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421; Xie Xiaobo-R63061
> > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31:52AM +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote:
> > > ls1 has qe and ls1 has arm cpu.
> > > move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <B45475@freescale•com>
> >
> > This is a very terse changelog. Explain more about what QE is, and what
> > this patch accomplishes (it doesn't seem to get rid of the PPC dependency,
> > just moving code at this stage)
> >
> > I don't see a MAINTAINERS update for the new path. Who is going to
> > maintain it?
> >
> > I don't think drivers/qe is the right place for it. Directories directly
> > under drivers/ tend to be for classes of devices, not instances. In any
> > case, LKML should be CCed when creating a new directory directly under
> > drivers/ or under a subdirectory of drivers/ that doesn't have its own
> > mailing list.
>
> So which directory do you recommend?
drivers/soc/
> Actually qe is a kind of IP block, so in my opinion, it is proper to put it under driver/(just in my opinion).
No, it isn't a type of device (e.g. "ethernet" or "tty"). It's an
abbreviation of a trademark for a specific multipurpose I/O
architecture.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-24 3:31 [PATCH] qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers Zhao Qiang
2014-07-30 0:19 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-06 8:53 ` qiang.zhao
2014-08-06 20:15 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2014-08-07 9:15 ` qiang.zhao
2014-08-07 17:15 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-07 18:57 ` Timur Tabi
2014-08-07 20:08 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-07 20:09 ` Timur Tabi
2014-08-07 20:11 ` Scott Wood
2014-08-07 20:13 ` Timur Tabi
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