linux-kernel - RE: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the ia64 tree

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:22:31 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"Borislav Petkov (bp@...en8.de)" <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>
Subject: RE: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the ia64
 tree

> Wait, do we really need a drivers/ras directory for one single driver?
> Why not put it in drivers/misc/ instead?  A whole subdir at the top of
> drivers seems overkill and odd.
>
> As it's a memory driver, what about drivers/firmware/ or drivers/edac/
> or drivers/platform?

It isn't really a firmware driver, and definitely not an EDAC driver.

drivers/platform/x86 seems at least plausible.

Adding Boris as drivers/ras was his idea. I think he has plans
for more stuff to go here.

-Tony
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