From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932364Ab3D2VS6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:18:58 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f51.google.com ([209.85.212.51]:49139 "EHLO mail-vb0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758773Ab3D2VS4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:18:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8yafvy92gfs.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> References: <20130429162115.GA6893@kroah.com> <201304292154.15920.arnd@arndb.de> <8yafvy92gfs.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:18:55 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9SiyNtzOgPCuLWej8w0dJGNioL4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.10-rc1 From: Linus Torvalds To: David Brown Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Nicolas Pitre , Richard Kuo , linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, David Brown wrote: > > So, what is this saner place? The hardware is theoretically shared > between ARM and Hexagon, but I don't know the hexagon plans to support > it, I've added them to the CC. So I actually wouldn't have complained about it in drivers/misc/ssbi/ or something like that. I don't think that's necessarily the best place for it, and maybe somebody can come up with better places. But even just in drivers/misc, at least you've moved it away to the point that it doesn't potentially compete with the pathname auto-completion of the fifty million other drivers we have under drivers/. Or maybe "drivers/platform/something-or-other" if there are possible other things that get shared together with this thing? I don't care that deeply, as long as it's just off in a little corner of the universe, rather than smack-dab in the middle. Linus