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

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@fh-brandenburg.de)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 12:33:04 EST


Hi,

> drivers/zorro is on the line of drivers/pci, it's code to drive the
> Zorro bus, there are no drivers for devices connected to a zorro bus
> in there, just like there are no PCI Ethernet drives in
> drivers/pci. drivers/macintosh are a mixture of the code for the
> busses and actual devices, I'd like to see the actual drivers moved to
> other directories, char, scsi etc. and possible merged with drivers
> for other machines that use the same chips.

I mostly agree for that, but we still have arch/(m68k|ppc)/amiga, that
could share some more code. Currently it doesn't for several reasons.
There is some code for Amigas/Macs, that is truly machine specific, but
used on both m68k/ppc.

bye, Roman

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