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    SubjectRe: location for new bus driver-- drivers/bus? drivers/misc?
    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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