Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 11:30:23 EST


On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > drivers/<architecture> (s390, sgi)
> >
> > The last should probably be arch/<xxx>/drivers, but the other ones are
> > either sensible (tons of bus-independent drivers) or conceptual UNIX
> > things (char vs block).
>
> What about drivers/macintosh or drivers/zorro, that are needed by two
> architectures. Is a mach/ directory still feasible?

Are you talking about the Zorro bus that Amigas use? If so, what
architecture besides Amiga-m68k uses it? Is it for PPC?

Why does that belong into drivers/$ARCH? arch/$ARCH/drivers is fine, and
you can symlink it around if more than one architecture shares a certain
piece of hardware.

Plus, drivers should be separated from abstraction layers. Things get
unmaintainable otherwise.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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