netdev - Re: [RFC 26/72] arm: Move the ARM/ACORN drivers

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:53:56 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sriram <srk@...com>,
	Vinay Hegde <vinay.hegde@...com>,
	Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@...com>,
	Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@...il.com>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@...tstofly.org>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Anant Gole <anantgole@...com>,
	Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 26/72] arm: Move the ARM/ACORN drivers

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:48:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2011, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > Move the ARM/ACORN drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/arm/ and make the
> > necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.
> > There were 4 drivers (TI Davinci & ftmac100) not in the
> > drivers/net/arm/ which should have been since they are only supported
> > under ARM, so they were added to the new directory structure.
> > 
> > NOTE: There are no "maintainers" for the TI Davinci drivers, so I am
> > CC'ing the last 3 major contributors from TI.
> 
> It doesn't seem logical to group drivers that are used on ARM under
> the architecture when the hardware is not actually made by ARM Ltd.

ARM doesn't make any silicon hardware itself, so by that argument it
shouldn't be in a directory called 'arm' at all.

However, what the 'arm' in drivers/net/arm is referring to is that
the drivers are solely used with stuff associated with arch/arm, not
that there's any connection with ARM Ltd.
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