Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756170Ab1BYD6I (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:58:08 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41355 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752195Ab1BYD6G (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:58:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:58:57 -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: <20110225035857.GA9985@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> <20110225032856.GA8475@suse.de> <8yavd08bwgi.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8yavd08bwgi.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: 1144 Lines: 28 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:54:21PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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. > > Not sure if anything is stopping it from moving off of MSM chips, but it > doesn't seem very likely. There are too many similar interfaces that > are standard that others would be likely to use. For the most part, it > is the bus to communicate between the MSM and it's specialized > peripherals. > > We can still put it there, but it will likely be the only driver ever in > the directory. Ah, so it's just one driver? Then how about drivers/platform/msm/ ? thanks, 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/