Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] misc: Generic on-chip SRAM allocation driver

[Shilimkar, Santosh]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Jan Lübbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 11:27 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > This driver requests and remaps a memory region as configured in the
> > device tree. It serves memory from this region via the genalloc API.
> >
> > Other drivers can retrieve the genalloc pool from a phandle pointing
> > to this drivers' device node in the device tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/Kconfig  |    8 ++++
> >  drivers/misc/Makefile |    1 +
> >  drivers/misc/sram.c   |  105
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 114 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/sram.c
>
> We now have drivers/memory, which seems to be a good place for this.
>
drivers/memory is created for Memory controller device drivers. SRAM is
just pool of memory and should belong to some other place.

Regards
Santosh
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