Re: Where to put new keyboard driver
Bradley D. LaRonde (brad@ltc.com)
Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:50:19 -0400
> > > 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
Thanks for the advice. I will put it in arch/myarch/myplatform. I wonder
though, that since my driver implements the keyboard interface (api) if that
might justify it being promoted to drivers/char. Probably not, eh? I
didnt't think so. :)
Regards,
Brad
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