Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754630AbXEAT2C (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:28:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755301AbXEAT2B (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:28:01 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:3487 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754630AbXEAT2A (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:28:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:27:48 +0100 From: Russell King To: Paul Sokolovsky Cc: Richard Purdie , Dmitry Krivoschekov , kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers Message-ID: <20070501192747.GE19872@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Sokolovsky , Richard Purdie , Dmitry Krivoschekov , kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk References: <1354376306.20070501080806@gmail.com> <46374645.2030900@gmail.com> <1068016897.20070501173657@gmail.com> <1178031675.5883.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> <97946200.20070501201821@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <97946200.20070501201821@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 27 On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:18:21PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Well, while description catches the essence of course, TLA is > far from being perfect: 1) Completely unknown; 2) can be easily > confused with mtd. > > But it's even more funny: there *is* drivers/mfd/ already in > mainline. I'd say that we were blind, but even you say "proposed", not > "exists", nor anybody else brought that to attention. I'm afraid, that > proves point 1 above ;-). It's only unknown to communities which do not read this mailing list. drivers/mfd was suggested after discussion here about where to put the UCB1[23]00 device drivers, since it was felt that drivers/misc was inappropriate. There's not much infrastructure there though. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/