Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] arch/x86/platform/atom: Move pmc_atom to drivers/platform/x86

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 01:43:31AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> I have been told I have to send my comments here instead of our
> internal ML. I didn't fast enough to comment that during v5. So do it
> right now.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com> wrote:
> > The pmc_atom driver does not contain any architecture specific
> > code. It only enables the SOC Power Management Controller Driver
> 
> SOC -> SoC
> Driver -> driver
> 
> > for BayTrail and CherryTrail platforms.
> >
> > Move the pmc_atom driver from arch/x86/platform/atom to
> > drivers/platform/x86.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig                                                     | 4 ----
> >  arch/x86/platform/atom/Makefile                                      | 1 -
> >  drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c                                             | 2 +-
> >  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                                         | 4 ++++
> >  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                                        | 1 +
> >  {arch/x86/platform/atom => drivers/platform/x86}/pmc_atom.c          | 3 +--
> 
> >  {arch/x86/include/asm => include/linux/platform_data/x86}/pmc_atom.h | 0
> 
> No, it's not a *platform data*.
> 
> Other that that looks good to me.

Where would you recommend instead? It needs a place to serve both acpi_lpss.c
and pmc_atom.c. The include/linux/platform_data/x86 location doesn't seem too
strange as it supports a "platform" driver in the sense that pmc_atom is a
platform driver.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center