[PATCH v2 1/6] soc: Introduce drivers/soc place-holder for SOC specific drivers

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Apr 23 16:46:17 PDT 2014


Based on earlier thread "https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/7/662" and
discussion at Kernel Summit'2013, it was agreed to create
'driver/soc' for drivers which are quite SOC specific.

Further discussion on the subject is in response to
the earlier version of the patch is here:
	http://lwn.net/Articles/588942/

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
---
 drivers/Kconfig     |    2 ++
 drivers/Makefile    |    3 +++
 drivers/soc/Kconfig |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/Kconfig

diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
index 0a0a90f..0e87a34 100644
--- a/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/platform/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/soc/Kconfig"
+
 source "drivers/clk/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index e3ced91..5367b51 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ obj-y				+= amba/
 # really early.
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMADEVICES)	+= dma/
 
+# SOC specific infrastructure drivers.
+obj-y				+= soc/
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO)		+= virtio/
 obj-$(CONFIG_XEN)		+= xen/
 
diff --git a/drivers/soc/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..339baa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+menu "SOC (System On Chip) specific Drivers"
+
+endmenu
-- 
1.7.9.5




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list