Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

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On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 17:36 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>         Either way, I don't pledge to be a HW designer with
> contemporary lexicon. The aim was simple - as a single word would be
> too ambiguous, general, or vice-versa, omitting, then acronym is
> needed, hopefully existing, and not new, and SoC is the most fitting
> TLA, IMHO. But I'm open to specific suggestions for improvement. For
> example, if I was to write a Documentation/ entry for that, I'd mention
> companion chips, peripheral/integrated controllers, etc. But renaming
> drivers/soc/ to drivers/companion/ would be more confusing, as the
> concept described is not tied to companion chips per se (even though
> many of chips we (handhelds.org) deal with, can be classified as
> such).

A while back I proposed drivers/mfd/ (multi function devices) and there
are a couple of drivers in there in mainline which probably fit your
description of SoC. The code I had once intended for there is probably
more ASoC related now...

Richard





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