From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932847Ab0KLUev (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:34:51 -0500 Received: from imr3.ericy.com ([198.24.6.13]:46214 "EHLO imr3.ericy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932417Ab0KLUet (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:34:49 -0500 Subject: Location for thermal drivers From: Guenter Roeck Reply-To: guenter.roeck@ericsson.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Alan Cox , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Ericsson Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:33:45 -0800 Message-ID: <1289594026.22931.388.camel@groeck-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, We have a review for a thermal driver for the Intel MID platform pending against the hwmon subsystem. See http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2010-November/030471.html for details. I think a better location for the driver would be drivers/thermal. drivers/hwmon is not really a good fit, since hwmon support for thermal drivers is optional. Potential problem with drivers/thermal is that there are no thermal drivers in there (yet), and there does not seem to be a maintainer. Another alternative would be to put it into platform code, similar to the existing thermal drivers. Thought, anyone ? Is there a preferred location for thermal drivers ? Thanks, Guenter