Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers: add memory management driver class

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 11:40:40 EST


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:18:36PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
> This patchset creates a new driver class under drivers/ for
> memory management related drivers, like zcache.

I was going back and forth with Dan whether it should be in mm/
or in drivers/mm.
>
> This driver class would be for drivers that don't actually enabled
> a hardware device, but rather augment the memory manager in some
> way.
>
> In-tree candidates for this driver class are zcache, zram, and
> lowmemorykiller, both in staging.

But with some many (well, three of them) I think sticking them in
drviers/mm makes more sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/mm/Kconfig
>
> diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
> index ece958d..67fe7bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/Kconfig
> @@ -152,4 +152,6 @@ source "drivers/vme/Kconfig"
>
> source "drivers/pwm/Kconfig"
>
> +source "drivers/mm/Kconfig"
> +
> endmenu
> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
> index 5b42184..121742e 100644
> --- a/drivers/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
> @@ -139,3 +139,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EXTCON) += extcon/
> obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY) += memory/
> obj-$(CONFIG_IIO) += iio/
> obj-$(CONFIG_VME_BUS) += vme/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_MM_DRIVERS) += mm/
> diff --git a/drivers/mm/Kconfig b/drivers/mm/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e5b3743
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +menu "Memory management drivers"
> +
> +endmenu
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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