Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:19:21 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4-rc1 |
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:13:10PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:07:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:00:37AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:16:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > ChangeSet 1.1612.17.5, 2004/02/27 11:40:29-08:00, masbock@us.ibm.com > > > > > > > > [PATCH] Driver for IBM service processor - updated (1/2) > > > > > > please don't put anything into drivers/misc for now. We might over to it, > > > but then we should do it for all drivers we think it makes sense instead > > > of random ones. > > > > Hm, well where do you feel I should move this driver to in the tree > > then? > > Currently drivers/char/ is the catchall for random gunk.
Yeah, but this driver does not even have a char interface, otherwise I would have no problem adding this there.
> But given that > there seem to be more and more such service processors around it might be > a good idea to just give them a directory udner drivers/ for themselves.
How about drivers/sp or drivers/service_processor? I'd be glad to rename the misc directory to that and clear up two issues at once :)
thanks,
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