From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1lp0139.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 576401A08C0 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 03:15:22 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <1407431705.7427.53.camel@snotra.buserror.net> Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers From: Scott Wood To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:15:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4fff14ebe11b44e997bbdc75f240356b@BLUPR03MB341.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: <1403580712-30153-1-git-send-email-B45475@freescale.com> <20140730001923.GA4151@home.buserror.net> <61b449dd79754d25ace3701ccebe10e2@BLUPR03MB341.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <1407356142.7427.41.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <4fff14ebe11b44e997bbdc75f240356b@BLUPR03MB341.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , Xie Xiaobo-R63061 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 04:15 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Wood Scott wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 4:16 AM > > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061 > > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > 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. > > So which directory do you recommend？ Please see about 10 lines up. :-P -Scott