Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932132Ab1BYDa4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:30:56 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40858 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755596Ab1BYDaz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:30:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:28:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: David Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dima Zavin , Daniel Walker , Kenneth Heitke , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, tsoni@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, swetland@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver Message-ID: <20110225032856.GA8475@suse.de> References: <1298585954-22422-1-git-send-email-kheitke@codeaurora.org> <1298585954-22422-3-git-send-email-kheitke@codeaurora.org> <1298600621.17118.27.camel@m0nster> <8yad3mgdeut.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> <1298601346.17118.29.camel@m0nster> <8ya8vx4dcky.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8ya8vx4dcky.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 32 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:20:45PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24 2011, Dima Zavin wrote: > > > On that note, should we have a "drivers/arm/msm" instead of just > > "drivers/msm"? Other non-msm arm sub-arches probably have the same > > problem and polluting drivers/ top-level for every arm-subarch maybe > > undesirable. > > I'm moving linux-kernel to the 'to' field, and adding Greg KH to CC. > > This is about a new driver (ssbi) for the MSM chips, and where the > driver for this should go. The driver is specific to MSM chips (as far > as I know, the bus is only supported there). There are likely to be > future msm-specific drivers, so the suggestion was to put this under > drivers/msm, or possibly drivers/arm/msm. > > Anyone other suggestions, or preferences for the location? drivers/ssbi? What's keeping this from later moving off of the msm chips to run on others? USB started out only on one processor, as did a lot of other bus-specific drivers, before the hardware became present on other architectures. So no need to bury it under a msm specific location. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- 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/