Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:15 PM Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The Surface System Aggregator Module (we'll refer to it as Surface
> Aggregator or SAM below) is an embedded controller (EC) found on various
> Microsoft Surface devices. Specifically, all 4th and later generation
> Surface devices, i.e. Surface Pro 4, Surface Book 1 and later, with the
> exception of the Surface Go series and the Surface Duo. Notably, it
> seems like this EC can also be found on the ARM-based Surface Pro X [1].

I think this should go to drivers/platform/x86 or drivers/platform/surface/
along with other laptop vendor specific code rather than drivers/misc/.

I'll have a look at the code myself, but I'd prefer to have the maintainers
for the other laptop drivers review this properly.

       Arnd