From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, zhangfx@lemote.com,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add backlight driver
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:23:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091201152339.GB23019@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259679693.12571.8.camel@falcon>
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:01:33PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> This time, I like the folks did under drivers/platform/x86/ ;) which
> will be better to maintain. for all of these drivers are really only
> YeeLoong platform specific ;)
Experience has shown that drivers for a particular subsystem are best
combined in a single menu, in a single directory. Otherwise any changes
to subsystem's internal APIs will become a major pain. Which in the
end means arch/ is usually the place for drivers that don't fit into
any established cathegory.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-01 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 11:06 [PATCH v6 0/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add platform specific drivers Wu Zhangin
[not found] ` <cover.1259664573.git.wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
2009-12-01 11:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] Loongson: Lemote-2F: add platform specific submenu Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 13:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 13:35 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-12-01 11:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add platform specific option Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 13:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 13:39 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-12-01 14:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:08 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add backlight driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 14:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 14:52 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-12-01 14:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 15:01 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-12-01 15:23 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
[not found] ` <1259681303.13403.4.camel@falcon.domain.org>
2009-12-01 15:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:09 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add battery driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 14:20 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:09 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add hwmon driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 14:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:10 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add video output driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 14:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add suspend driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 12:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-01 15:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 14:51 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 11:12 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add hotkey driver Wu Zhangin
2009-12-01 15:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-12-01 18:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-02 9:43 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-12-01 11:16 ` [PATCH v6 0/8] Loongson: YeeLoong: add platform specific drivers Wu Zhangjin
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