Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] acpi: Drop drivers/acpi/hmat/ directory

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri May 31 2019 - 10:56:18 EST


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:24 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Friday, May 31, 2019 12:59:27 AM CEST Dan Williams wrote:
> > As a single source file object there is no need for the hmat enabling to
> > have its own directory.
>
> Well, I asked Keith to add that directory as the code in hmat.c is more related to mm than to
> the rest of the ACPI subsystem.

...but hmat/hmat.c does not say anything about mm?

> Is there any problem with retaining it?

It feels redundant for no benefit to type hmat/hmat.c. How about create:

drivers/acpi/numa/ or drivers/acpi/mm/

...and move numa.c and hmat.c there if you want to separate mm
concerns from the rest of drivers/acpi/?