On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Wood Scott wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 4:16 AM > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Xie Xiaobo-R63061 > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers > > On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 03:53 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:19 AM, Wood Scott wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:19 AM > > > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475 > > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421; Xie > > > Xiaobo-R63061 > > > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31:52AM +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote: > > > > ls1 has qe and ls1 has arm cpu. > > > > move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <b45...@freescale.com> > > > > > > This is a very terse changelog. Explain more about what QE is, and > > > what this patch accomplishes (it doesn't seem to get rid of the PPC > > > dependency, just moving code at this stage) > > > > > > I don't see a MAINTAINERS update for the new path. Who is going to > > > maintain it? > > > > > > I don't think drivers/qe is the right place for it. Directories > > > directly under drivers/ tend to be for classes of devices, not > > > instances. In any case, LKML should be CCed when creating a new > > > directory directly under drivers/ or under a subdirectory of > > > drivers/ that doesn't have its own mailing list. > > > > So which directory do you recommend? > > drivers/soc/ > > > Actually qe is a kind of IP block, so in my opinion, it is proper to > put it under driver/(just in my opinion). > > No, it isn't a type of device (e.g. "ethernet" or "tty"). It's an > abbreviation of a trademark for a specific multipurpose I/O architecture. So which directory do you recommend? > > -Scott > Regards, Zhao Qiang _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev