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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:19:20 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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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,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_ar.c if_arregs.h src/sys/pci 
 if_ar_p.c
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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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