Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:50:22 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: Use of drivers/platform and matching include? |
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:54:07AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > It wouldn't be a huge deal to add something like arch/arm/syslib and > give some of the system library-type code a home there -- stuff like > resource allocation libraries, etc. I don't think we want to collect > all the back-end drivers in there though, just libraries.
We don't need yet another subdirectory in arch/arm - yes, that's a favourite way of avoiding any issues, but really it's not the right answer. We already have a place for shared cross-platform code, and it's called arch/arm/common.
> I think many of us are hesitant to introduce something that runs the > risk of becoming a dumping ground for all these "I don't know where to > put them, so here you go" drivers, since we've spent so much time > cleaning them all up and de-forking per-vendor implementations of > similar things.
"Drivers go under drivers/" is what we've decided. If we want to change that, then we should move all those IRQ, gpio and clock drivers back out of the drivers/ subtree, because many of them are SoC specific.
Please, think back to why we made the original decision(s) to move this stuff out of arch/arm.
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