Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:40:07 +0100 | From | Mark Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [i2c] [PATCH v2] Add support for Dallas DS28CM00 Unique ID chip |
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Mark Jackson wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:42 +0100, Mark Jackson wrote: >>> Jean Delvare wrote: >>>> Nack. No new drivers under drivers/i2c/chips please, it's going away >>>> soon. >>> Okay ... where should any new drivers be located ? >> >> Depends of what the device does. >> * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon >> * RTC chip drivers go to drivers/rtc >> * I/O expander drivers go to drivers/gpio >> If you can't find a suitable directory under drivers, either create a >> new one if that makes sense, or put your driver under drivers/misc. > > Ah, now I understand !! I think drivers/misc is probably a good a place > as any,
In fact, I now realise that the device is *really* just a read-only eeprom.
So I'm guessing I don't need a custom driver, I can just use the existing "at24" driver.
Ho hum ...
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