From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: paulus@samba•org
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: arch/powerpc/sysdev: dumping ground or only for shared drivers?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:57:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510215730.GA25075@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510200237.GA19756@mag.az.mvista.com>
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:02:37PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> This is the latest and hopefully last round of patches for adding mv64x60
> and prpmc2800 support to arch/powerpc. It would be great if this could
> still get into 2.6.22.
I know Mark wants this merged, and I'm not looking to hold that off,
however the following came up on IRC and I wanted to move it over here
for clarification/list archiving of the answers:
This adds yet another set of chipset drivers under sysdev, that are
only used by one platform (several board ports under that platform,
but only one platforms/* directory).
In my opinion, they really should go under the platform directory instead,
and not clutter the shared directory.
Same with tsi*, it should probably be moved, as well as the 8xx*
drivers. fsl_* seems to be shared, so does cpm2*.
embedded6xx has a handful of different chipsets, so it could make sense
to create a subdir under platforms/embedded6xx for chipset support,
but there's no need to keep them in sysdev.
Or is sysdev really supposed to be a dumping ground for all chipset
drivers, even those who are not shared between platforms?
If not, I'll be happy to bake up a patch that moves things out (unless
the platform maintainers want to do it themselves) for 2.6.23.
Thanks,
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 20:02 [PATCH 0/13] powerpc: Add support for Marvell/mv64x60 and prpmc2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:04 ` [PATCH 1/13] powerpc: Add Makefile rules to wrap dts file in zImage Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 23:29 ` David Gibson
2007-05-11 15:59 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 hostbridge Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell MPSC Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 I2C Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/13] powerpc: Add interrupt support for Marvell mv64x60 chips Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 6/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 MPSC (serial) platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 7/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 ethernet platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 8/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 I2C platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 9/13] powerpc: Add Marvell mv64x60 PCI bridge support Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 10/13] powerpc: check cache coherency of kernel vs firmware Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:44 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-10 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-05-12 11:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 0:00 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 0:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 12:50 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 14:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 1:10 ` David Gibson
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 12/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for " Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 13/13] powerpc: Add arch/powerpc support for the Motorola PrPMC2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:57 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-05-10 22:06 ` arch/powerpc/sysdev: dumping ground or only for shared drivers? Kumar Gala
2007-05-11 1:00 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-15 9:53 ` Christian Krafft
2007-05-10 22:40 ` David Gibson
2007-05-10 23:00 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-11 0:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-11 17:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-05-15 21:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 22:06 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-15 22:19 ` Grant Likely
2007-05-15 22:25 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-15 22:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 23:56 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-16 0:32 ` Mark A. Greer
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