linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/1] drivers: mfd: Versatile Express SPC support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1307171014510.14924@syhkavp.arg>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
cc:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
	Jon Medhurst <tixy@...aro.org>,
	Achin Gupta <Achin.Gupta@....com>,
	Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/1] drivers: mfd: Versatile Express SPC support

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Pawel Moll wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:33 +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > If this is really miscelaneous code that really doesn't fit 
> > anywhere else, it should rather go into drivers/misc/ as a last resort.
> 
> Interestingly enough drivers/misc was my first choice for all the
> vexpress stuff, but it wasn't received well...
> 
> Anyway, the SPC driver as it is now seem to be a "power management
> system driver". Maybe a relevant directory would be in place? Wouldn't
> PSCI belong there as well? (there are two psci.c files in arch/arm and
> arch/arm64, surprisingly similar ones ;-)
> 
> The bottom line is: today it is not an MFD driver.

But we know it will, right?  So better  save some churn by storing the 
initial code where it would end up anyway once complete.


Nicolas
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