Re: [PATCH 03/15] ACPICA: move common private headers underkernel/acpi/acpica/

[Len Brown]

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:10:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i still tend to regard kernel/* as the core Linux kernel, as code that can 
> > be improved infinitely (only subject to the laws of physics), without 
> > having to worry about how the ACPI spec wants certain things done.

I want to move the Linux-ACPI code and the ACPICA core
out of drivers/ simply because they are not drivers,
and never will be.

The actual ACPI drivers, OTOH, would remain in drivers/acpi/.

So looking around...

arch/ doesn't make sense for something shared by x86 and ia64

firmware/ seems to be about software that doesn't run on the CPU.

kernel/ is evidently sacred ground.                 
 
So I suggest "platform/acpi/" or if we can't imagine any
other cross architecture platform code code that isn't device drivers,
then simply "acpi/"  Would you find that less offensive?

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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