Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:37:20 +0800 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: location for new bus driver-- drivers/bus? drivers/misc? |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:25:49PM +0000, Stuart Yoder wrote: > Greg, > > We (Freescale) have a patch series nearly ready to send out > for a new bus driver. It's for a block we call the Freescale > 'Management Complex' which manages discoverable hardware objects. > The Linux bus driver enumerates these objects, binds discovered > objects to drivers just like PCI or any normal bus driver.
Sounds good.
> Question is-- where should this go in the kernel and who would > the maintainer be to cc: the RFC? I don't think it warrants > a top level driver directory beside pci, usb, etc. Most likely > place is drivers/bus or drivers/misc (?). > > We currently have it in drivers/bus, but as far as I can see > there is no maintainer per se for that directory. You and > Arnd manage misc so thought I would ask.
I don't remember why drivers/bus/ came about, Arnd, you created it, should we be putting random bus controllers in this directory?
And if so, sure, I can maintain drivers/bus/ along with the misc/char drivers, it's not a big deal.
thanks,
greg k-h
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