Re: Where is place of arch independed companion chips?

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Hi!

> > >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.

We have some problems with ucb1x00 chip on some small systems;
originally we wanted it to go into drivers/misc, but that sounded
wrong. Latest idea was drivers/mfd (multi functional devices)...

								Pavel
-- 
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