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From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
To: kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu, davej@codemonkey.org.uk
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:32:22 -0500
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> 	drivers/{s390,macintosh,acorn}/
> makes it (IMO) cleaner to share drivers between 
> e.g. s390 and  s390x, or possibly i386/x86_64 in the future.

The i386 EDD "driver" could probably be shared with x86-64, I hadn't thought
about it before.  Likewise the IA64 efivars driver *may* eventually be
shared with x86 or others if Intel's plans come to fruition.  So I'd vote
for something in drivers/ rather than arch/ for such shareable modules.  I'm
open to moving each of these if told where the "right" place should be.
Neither are char or block drivers, so those don't make sense - purely
driverfs/proc interfaces.  Nor are they "bus" drivers ala ide or scsi.
drivers/misc is empty and I think people want to keep it that way...

Some ideas for these:
drivers/i386
drivers/efi

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
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