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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:13:10 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.4-rc1
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:07:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:00:37AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:16:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > ChangeSet 1.1612.17.5, 2004/02/27 11:40:29-08:00, masbock@us.ibm.com
> > > 
> > > [PATCH] Driver for IBM service processor - updated (1/2)
> > 
> > please don't put anything into drivers/misc for now.  We might over to it,
> > but then we should do it for all drivers we think it makes sense instead
> > of random ones.
> 
> Hm, well where do you feel I should move this driver to in the tree
> then?

Currently drivers/char/ is the catchall for random gunk.  But given that
there seem to be more and more such service processors around it might be
a good idea to just give them a directory udner drivers/ for themselves.