Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI)driver

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:54:21PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > drivers/ssbi?  What's keeping this from later moving off of the msm
> > chips to run on others?  USB started out only on one processor, as did a
> > lot of other bus-specific drivers, before the hardware became present on
> > other architectures.  So no need to bury it under a msm specific
> > location.
> 
> Not sure if anything is stopping it from moving off of MSM chips, but it
> doesn't seem very likely.  There are too many similar interfaces that
> are standard that others would be likely to use.  For the most part, it
> is the bus to communicate between the MSM and it's specialized
> peripherals.
> 
> We can still put it there, but it will likely be the only driver ever in
> the directory.

Ah, so it's just one driver?  Then how about drivers/platform/msm/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h
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