Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: Add basic support for the Congatec CGEB BIOSinterface

From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Mon Feb 20 2012 - 13:07:57 EST


Hi Samuel,

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:39:27PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 02:26:31PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > The Congatec CGEB is a BIOS interface found on some Congatec x86
> > modules. It provides access to on board peripherals like I2C busses
> > and watchdogs. This driver contains the basic support for accessing
> > the CGEB interface and registers the child devices.
> After looking at the code, I'm not entirely sure this one belongs to
> drivers/mfd/. Have you thought about putting it under arch/x86/platform/ ?
> There are similar examples there, like uv or olpc.

I don't mind putting it in arch/x86/platform instead. I'm an ARM guy and
on ARM there currently is a rush to move everything looking remotely
like a driver out of arch/arm/ to drivers/, so putting it under
drivers/mfd/ seemed logical to me.

Sascha

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