On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 03:53 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:19 AM, Wood Scott wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:19 AM > > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421; Xie Xiaobo-R63061 > > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31:52AM +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote: > > > ls1 has qe and ls1 has arm cpu. > > > move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <b45...@freescale.com> > > > > This is a very terse changelog. Explain more about what QE is, and what > > this patch accomplishes (it doesn't seem to get rid of the PPC dependency, > > just moving code at this stage) > > > > I don't see a MAINTAINERS update for the new path. Who is going to > > maintain it? > > > > I don't think drivers/qe is the right place for it. Directories directly > > under drivers/ tend to be for classes of devices, not instances. In any > > case, LKML should be CCed when creating a new directory directly under > > drivers/ or under a subdirectory of drivers/ that doesn't have its own > > mailing list. > > So which directory do you recommend?
drivers/soc/ > Actually qe is a kind of IP block, so in my opinion, it is proper to put it > under driver/(just in my opinion). No, it isn't a type of device (e.g. "ethernet" or "tty"). It's an abbreviation of a trademark for a specific multipurpose I/O architecture. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev