Len Brown wrote: > >>> Move x86 platform specific drivers from drivers/misc/ >>> to a new home under drivers/x86/. >>> >>> The community has been maintaining x86 platform specific drivers >>> under /drivers/misc/ for a few years. The oldest ones started >>> life under drivers/acpi, but got booted out because they are >>> generally vendor-specific extensions to ACPI, or simply >>> users of ACPI, rather than implementers of the ACPI spec. >>> >>> The thing that they have in common is that they are >>> x86 vendor specific platform drivers. So when asked, >>> Linus suggested we move them to drivers/x86. >> We already have 81 one directory entries under drivers/ >> and with patch you open up for an additional >> directory for each arch - not elegant. > > I followed the example of drivers/s390/, > per Linus' suggestion. > > The other place that seemed to suggest itself was > arch/x86/drivers/, as we already have: > > arch/um/drivers/ > arch/sh/drivers/ > arch/cris/*/drivers/ > >> As it is today (before this patch) the directories unider >> drivers/ said what the drivers was used for - which is logical. >> >> But with this new arch specific directory it is no longer obvious >> is a driver should be located under say drivers/net/* or >> drivers/arm/* in case it is a arm specific driver. > > These are vendor-specific, aka "platform specific" drivers > for various x86 platforms. > >> What is wrong with the current location under misc/*? > > mostly that it "misc" means nothing at all... > Indeed, misc should probably be deleted for this reason... Yes, IIRC, we had eliminated drivers/misc/ at one point, and then it came back on us. ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
