Messages in this thread |  | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mfd: lubbock_cplds: add lubbock IO board | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:24:02 +0100 |
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On Saturday 28 March 2015, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > It's not as much a problem as a generic question : does a driver belong to > arch/* ? > > Personaly it would have been far simpler for me to have it through the pxa tree, > but I want to be sure it's the right place. Others will follow, pxa mainstone is > such a candidate. > > I was thinking so far that arch/arm/mach-* was for machine description, > ie. wirings, interconnections, initial setup etc ... The "driver" part, ie. code > really driving dynamics in IPs was as per my understanding in drivers/... > > Now I can create arch/arm/mach-pxa/lubbock_cplds.c, that won't make any > difference to me, provided that it's the right thing to do.
If we had a lot of these, we would probably put them somewhere under drivers. and find a maintainer for them. Given that this is an exceptional case for an older machine, my feeling is that leaving the code in mach-pxa is the least effort for now.
Arnd
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