linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/15] ACPICA: move common private headers under kernel/acpi/acpica/

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901082328160.4091@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:34:49 -0500 (EST)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] ACPICA: move common private headers under
 kernel/acpi/acpica/



> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:10:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i still tend to regard kernel/* as the core Linux kernel, as code that can 
> > be improved infinitely (only subject to the laws of physics), without 
> > having to worry about how the ACPI spec wants certain things done.

I want to move the Linux-ACPI code and the ACPICA core
out of drivers/ simply because they are not drivers,
and never will be.

The actual ACPI drivers, OTOH, would remain in drivers/acpi/.

So looking around...

arch/ doesn't make sense for something shared by x86 and ia64

firmware/ seems to be about software that doesn't run on the CPU.

kernel/ is evidently sacred ground.                 
 
So I suggest "platform/acpi/" or if we can't imagine any
other cross architecture platform code code that isn't device drivers,
then simply "acpi/"  Would you find that less offensive?

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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