Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:19:20 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_ar.c if_arregs.h src/sys/pci if_ar_p.c Message-ID: <3A708A48.4FB0E316@elischer.org> References: <200101252017.f0PKHO801164@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Warner Losh wrote:
> > > : Ok, what should I do with i386/isa/ic/hd64570.h? Do we have a common
> > > : place for things like that? It isn't really related to ISA and in
> > > : this case it will be used by more than one driver. At least ar(4) and
> > > : sr(4).
> > >
> > > We should have a good place to put these. We don't have a good
> > > generic place. The least bad right now is sys/isa/ic.
> >
> > Actually, the chip is a chip.. not ISA related in any way.
>
> sys/dev/devices, or sys/dev/include or something similar. If we're going
> to build a header library for common devices (a very desirable idea) it
> should be in a "standard" place.
ICs should go in /dev/ic, like NetBSD does..
it's descriptive and global..
and it's pretty easy to say when a device is an IC..
>
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