Hi Florian, On Wednesday 21 March 2012 14:01:00 Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > On 03/21/2012 01:49 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 March 2012 18:27:08 Kuninori Morimoto wrote: > >> MERAM can be used for other IP blocks as well in the future. > >> It doesn't necessarily mean that the MERAM driver depends on the LCDC. > >> This patch corrects dependency. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> v3 -> v4 > >> > >> - move config to before endpoint > > > > As the driver doesn't depend on FB and can also be used by other > > subsystems, would it make sense to move it out of drivers/video/ ? > > drivers/sh/ might be a candidate, although I think selecting a location > > based on the platform is frowned upon (drivers/platform/x86 comes to > > mind). There's probably a better location. > > Well, as long as it is related to video/graphic I think drivers/video is > a good location. There are also backlight and console in that directory > without being directly related to the framebuffer subsystem. The MERAM can also be used by the video engine unit (a memory-to-memory format conversion block), the video processing unit (a multi-codec module), the capture engine unit (camera interface), the JPEG engine unit (a JPEG codec), ... Not all of those are related to display, although they're all related to display, imaging, and or/video. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
