Re: [PATCH 08/10] nvdimm: Add driver for OpenCAPI Storage Class Memory

[Alastair D'Silva]

On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 10:47 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 15/11/19 3:35 am, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Have you discussed with the directory owner if it's ok to split
> > > the
> > > driver over several files?
> > 
> > My thought is to establish drivers/opencapi/ and move this and the
> > existing drivers/misc/ocxl/ bits there.
> 
> Is there any other justification for this we can think of apart from
> not 
> wanting to put this driver in the nvdimm directory? OpenCAPI drivers 
> aren't really a category of driver unto themselves.
> 

There is a precedent for bus-based dirs, eg. drivers/(ide|w1|spi) all
contain drivers for both controllers & connected devices.

Fred, how do you feel about moving the generic OpenCAPI driver out of
drivers/misc?

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Alastair D'Silva
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