[PATCH 1/3] ARM: driver for the character LCD found in ARM refdesigns

H Hartley Sweeten hartleys at visionengravers.com
Thu Jul 15 12:32:07 EDT 2010


On Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:54 AM, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:49:28PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> 2010/7/15 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
>>> I think the only questionable thing on this is the location of the
>>> driver.  As we now have plat-versatile for the shared stuff between
>>> integrator, verastile, realview and versatile express, maybe it'd
>>> make more sense to be in plat-versatile?
>> 
>> OK I can move it there.
>> 
>>> Or maybe drivers/platform/arm/ (to avoid Linus' complaint about
>>> drivers under arch/ ?)
>> 
>> Creating that for a single driver seems weird, I could just as well
>> create drivers/lcd for all LCDs in that case. But there is another
>> LCD-like driver for a USB-connected LCD under drivers/misc
>> IIRC, maybe I can make a patch for that as well and let the misc
>> maintainer decide if he wants it.
>
> My first preference would be somewhere under drivers/, if not then
> plat-versatile.  So if you think drivers/misc would be suitable,
> please try the misc maintainer.

drivers/auxdisplay ?

Regards,
Hartley


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