On Monday 21 January 2008 04:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:51:17PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Intel menlow platform specific driver for thermal management. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 10 > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 > > drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c | 527 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Why is this in drivers/misc? I don't have a thermal.h in mainline, but > if this is a new subsystem your adding care to create a directory under > drivers/ for it? Hi Christoph, I'm sure it was me who suggested putting intel_menlo.c under drivers/misc. A while back I refused to let any new platform specific drivers under drivers/acpi, and asked that the ones here already move out. This is because they happne to use ACPI, but are not actually part of the ACPI sub-system (any more than ATA is). Also, I wanted the maintainer roles to be clear -- these drivers have primary maintainers other than me, and those guys are in the heroic, but tragic, business of writing platform-specific drivers for systems with no documentation or vendor support. drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c drivers/misc/msi-laptop.c drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c intel_menlo.c fits in with this group, the only difference is that its primary maintainers actually have documentation:-) is there a better place than drivers/misc for this group? thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
