Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?

[Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote:
> 
>>Andrey Volkov wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Greg,
>>>
>>>While I write driver for SM501 CC (which have graphics controller, USB
>>>MASTER/SLAVE, AC97, UART, SPI  and VIDEO CAPTURE onboard),
>>>I bumped with next ambiguity:
>>>Where is a place of this chip's Kconfig/drivers in
>>>kernel config/drivers tree? May be create new node in drivers subtree?
>>>Or put it under graphics node (since it's main function of this CC)?
>>>
>>>AFAIK, this is not one such multifunctional monster in the world, so
>>>somebody bumped with this problem again in future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Good question.  I was about to submit a patch that created 
>>drivers/platform because the toplevel driver for MQ11xx is a 
>>platform_device driver.  Any thoughts on this?
> 
> 
> drivers/platform sounds good to me.

May be better drivers/chipset?
Because "platform" imply only platform_device drivers,
but, SM501 as ex., could be connected through PCI too.

-- 
Regards
Andrey Volkov
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