Re: Where to put new keyboard driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 8 Aug 1999 16:57:21 +0100 (BST)


> > I would assume drivers/macintosh
> >
> What is the rule of thumb for deciding whether to put a platform-specific
> driver in drivers/myplatform or arch/myarch/myplatform?

Generally "is this ever going to be used by more than one very machine specific
case". Things like LCD panels are a bit more complex because there are multiple
machines with them and even if the drivers are unique you might want to put
them in drivers/ so that a common LCD panel API can be evolved

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