On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Len Brown wrote: > > > > Move x86 platform specific drivers from drivers/misc/ > > > > to a new home under 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/ > > IMHO, from a purely "tree organization" point of view, it would be best if > arch-specific platform drivers were under drivers/platform/<arch>/. And > arch/ be left for the core arch-specific stuff. > > Whether that would work well, when arch maintenance factors are taken into > account, I don't know. Each of the drivers has a primary maintainer -- though some of them jare more active than others... And I'll continue to be available to help them where I can. > > > 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. > > drivers/platform/<arch> would help in that regard, I think. I agree. drivers/platform/x86/ seems to be a better home than drivers/x86/ for this bunch. I'll update the patch to do this. The other arch's can follow later if they choose. thanks, -Len -- 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
