[PATCH 1/3] soc: Introduce drivers/soc place-holder for SOC specific drivers

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:18:38 -0500
Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:

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

So what happens if you put something in say soc/banana and 3 months later
the same IP block shows up in two other devices both of which have their
own soc/ directory already ?

What happens when the same blocks shows up on both a SoC and
later externally ?

Where does a soc specifc gpio driver go ?

It seems to me we've got a lot of confusion here because drivers/ is
split by type, and we've also got arch/* machine specific drivers and
we've got drivers/platform which is intended as far as I can see for
everything you'd put in drivers/soc except for that which goes in arch/*
anyway.

If QMSS is arm specific why isn't it in arch/arm, if it's not why isn't
it in drivers/platform ?

Just trying to understand the point of drivers/soc. 

Alan