Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers | From | Richard Purdie <> | Date | Tue, 01 May 2007 16:01:15 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 17:36 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Either way, I don't pledge to be a HW designer with > contemporary lexicon. The aim was simple - as a single word would be > too ambiguous, general, or vice-versa, omitting, then acronym is > needed, hopefully existing, and not new, and SoC is the most fitting > TLA, IMHO. But I'm open to specific suggestions for improvement. For > example, if I was to write a Documentation/ entry for that, I'd mention > companion chips, peripheral/integrated controllers, etc. But renaming > drivers/soc/ to drivers/companion/ would be more confusing, as the > concept described is not tied to companion chips per se (even though > many of chips we (handhelds.org) deal with, can be classified as > such).
A while back I proposed drivers/mfd/ (multi function devices) and there are a couple of drivers in there in mainline which probably fit your description of SoC. The code I had once intended for there is probably more ASoC related now...
Richard
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