On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > We can use some scheme like Geert was proposing, i.e., named after > > boards and chipsets. Hack, I think even naming after board vendor > > is acceptable. > > Chipsets are a too coarse granularity to structure things these days. > Modern chipsets integrate a large number of logically independant > functionality. Frequently such chipsets are ASICs which consist of > various logically independant functions licensed from several sources > and possibly multiple chipset / ASICs are being used in a single > system. The world just isn't that simple ... What's the deal? E.g. for a PCI chip we can have a separate file for each function. And anything that is not related to a system's core, i.e. a peripheral device, belongs to drivers/whatever anyway. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
