[PATCH v3 6/7] mfd: Add support for LAN966x PCI device

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, at 15:11, Herve Codina wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:33:26 -0600 Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 1:08 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>> > >
>> > > This PCI driver purpose is to instanciate many other drivers using a DT
>> > > overlay. I think MFD is the right subsystem.  
>> 
>> It is a Multi-function Device, but it doesn't appear to use any of the
>> MFD subsystem. So maybe drivers/soc/? Another dumping ground, but it
>> is a driver for an SoC exposed as a PCI device.
>> 
>
> In drivers/soc, drivers/soc/microchip/ could be the right place.
>
> Conor, are you open to have the PCI LAN966x device driver in
> drivers/soc/microchip/ ?

That sounds like a much worse fit than drivers/mfd: the code
here does not actually run on the lan966x soc, it instead runs
on whatever other machine you happen to plug it into as a
PCI device.

      Arnd