On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > We can use some scheme like Geert was proposing, i.e., named after
> > boards and chipsets. Hack, I think even naming after board vendor
> > is acceptable.
>
> Chipsets are a too coarse granularity to structure things these days.
> Modern chipsets integrate a large number of logically independant
> functionality. Frequently such chipsets are ASICs which consist of
> various logically independant functions licensed from several sources
> and possibly multiple chipset / ASICs are being used in a single
> system. The world just isn't that simple ...
What's the deal? E.g. for a PCI chip we can have a separate file for
each function. And anything that is not related to a system's core, i.e.
a peripheral device, belongs to drivers/whatever anyway.
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