On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:35:51PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > > > > Since this is a driver for a PCIe switch, I currently put it under /driver/pci/. > > > > I'm very open to suggestions for moving this around (Does introducing > > > > drivers/pci/switch/ seem any better?). Especially I can see that the > > > > drivers/pci/Kconfig appears under "Bus Options" in the main menu which does not > > > > look like the right place for this driver. I am looking for suggestions here. > > > > > > Definitely interesting work. I have no idea where to put it. It > > > doesn't have anything to do with PCI core services or structures, so > > > drivers/pci doesn't seem like the ideal place for it, but I don't have > > > any better ideas. If it did end up under drivers/pci, I agree that a > > > drivers/pci/switch or something similar would probably be better than > > > having it directly in drivers/pci. > > > > > > Maybe Wolfram or other I2C folks will have an idea. > > > > Hmm, is this a common interface for those switches? Then a directory > > like drivers/pci/switch could make sense. Otherwise I'd suggest > > drivers/misc? > > > We had discussed drivers/misc internally, but it didn't seem to be the right > location to me. After all, it is not a misc driver, but a driver to configure > a PCIe switch. Not that I have a better idea, though. drivers/misc is fine with me, I think we already have something like this for I2C USB devices somewhere in the tree in that location. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
