Re: [PATCH 0/9] Samsung Trinity NPU device driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:59 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26/07/2022 04:09, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Why isn't this submitted to soc/ subsystem ?
> >> Don't you think that would be more appropriate, given that this IP is
> >> integrated into application processors ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Oded
> >
> > This series (Trinity-V2.3, V2.4, A1, ..) is being integrated to multiple SoCs,
> > not limited to Samsung-designed chips (e.g., Exynos).
> > It's a bit weird to have them in /drivers/soc/samsung.
> >
> > CC: Krzysztof and Alim (Samsung-SoC maintainers)
>
> If it is not related to Samsung SoCs (or other designs by Samsung
> Foundry), then it should not go to drivers/soc. Based on cover letter,
> it looks this is the case.

Agreed, and I also don't want to add any drivers with a user interface
to drivers/soc/. The things we have in there mainly fall into two categories:

 - soc_device drivers for identifying the SoC itself from userspace or
   another driver

 - drivers that provide exported symbols to other kernel drivers for things
   that do not have a proper subsystem abstraction (yet).

This driver clearly does not fall into those categories. As long as there
is no subsystem for NPUs, the only sensible options are drivers/gpu
and drivers/misc/.

     Arnd