Hello Richard, Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 6:01:15 PM, you wrote:
> 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... Well, while description catches the essence of course, TLA is far from being perfect: 1) Completely unknown; 2) can be easily confused with mtd. But it's even more funny: there *is* drivers/mfd/ already in mainline. I'd say that we were blind, but even you say "proposed", not "exists", nor anybody else brought that to attention. I'm afraid, that proves point 1 above ;-). Well, now that it's there, we have little choice but use it, so we'll move our stuff there. Thanks everyone for hints! > Richard -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/