Re: Use of drivers/platform and matching include?

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 03 2013 - 12:25:28 EST


On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:21:10AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> As we look at upstreaming more support for the Qualcomm MSM SoCs there
> >> are a number of drivers or library like routines that are unique to
> >> the MSM platform, we are thinking that putting them under:
> >>
> >> drivers/platform/qcom/
> >
> > What type of drivers are these? Shouldn't they really go under the
> > specific driver type directory instead?
>
> If there isn't an existing driver/ dir for this I dont see how it can go there, I'm not also not really a fan of trying to artificial put something that is highly SoC specific into something generic of this nature.

Loose a line-wrap somewhere?...

Anyway, you didn't answer my question, so why do I need to answer yours?

snarkily,

greg k-h
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