linux-kernel - Re: [char-misc-next 01/11] mei: bus: Initial MEI bus type implementation

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Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 22:29:17 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sameo@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 01/11] mei: bus: Initial MEI bus type implementation

On Thursday 07 February 2013, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> mei bus will present some of the me clients
> as devices for other standard subsystems
> 
> Implement the probe, remove, match and the device addtion routines.
> A mei-bus.txt document describing the rationale and the API usage
> is also added.

This looks really nice, but I also think you have reached the point where
you are outgrowing the scope of drivers/misc. How about turning mei
into a top-level subsystem along with this new bus_type?

Another option would be moving it to drivers/bus/mei/ if you don't
want to be quite at the top.

	Arnd
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