Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?

From: Andrey Volkov
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 13:39:51 EST



Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
>
>>Andrey Volkov wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Greg,
>>>
>>>While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB
>>>MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard),
>>>I bumped with next ambiguity:
>>>Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in
>>>kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree?
>>>Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)?
>>>
>>>AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so
>>>somebody bumped with this problem again in future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Good question. I was about to submit a patch that created
>>drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a
>>platform_device driver. Any thoughts on this?
>
>
> drivers/platform sounds good to me.

May be better drivers/chipset?
Because "platform" imply only platform_device drivers,
but, SM501 as ex., could be connected through PCI too.

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Regards
Andrey Volkov
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