Status of arch/arm in linux-next

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Apr 22 03:17:21 EDT 2011


* Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> [110421 13:59]:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > This is why I don't believe that moving this code from arch/ to drivers/
> > will change anything.
> 
> That at least would have the property of gathering drivers together 
> according to their _purpose_, irrespective of their implementation 
> details.  That's the case for all the other class of drivers already. 
> Why would cpufreq drivers be different?

And drivers do have well defined standards, so that automatically prevents
people sneaking in spaghetti calls to platform specific code ;)

Tony



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