Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:33:47 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for TI FlashMedia (pci id 104c:8033, 104c:803b) flash card readers
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:08:46PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:53:35AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >   
> >> Is there no driver in the kernel that already has this design?
> >>     
> >
> > Not directly, no.  USB-storage handles a wide range of devices like this
> > by virtue of them following the usb storage spec (which is really just
> > scsi).
> >   
> 
> How about this... We put the main driver in drivers/misc, add a Kconfig
> for it that isn't visible, put the submodules in their respective
> subsystems and set their Kconfigs to select the main module. Does that
> sound like a good solution?

But there is no "subsystem" for a memory card reader, right?  That's one
of the problems here :)

I don't know, but misc/ is fine with me unless someone else has a good
idea of where to put it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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