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Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus 
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:12:48 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> >> 
> >> It makes no sense to put it there either, since sys/dev is for
> >> bus-independent (parts of) drivers.
> >
> >Well, then I'd better move the ppbus stuff.  It makes no sense to me
> >to have Yet Another toplevel directory for this though, and sys/dev
> >strikes me as being the ideal place for architecture-independent
> >device drivers.
> >
> >Any consensus on this?
> 
> No :-).
> 
> If /sys/de/ is ideal for arch-independent drivers, why put arch-dependent
> drivers in it?  (ppbus/*.c is apparently arch-dependent because it includes
> files from i386/isa.)

This is a bug, and I am embarrassed to say that it has slipped down my 
list of must-fixes.  None of the ppbus stuff *should* be arch-dependant 
in any way.

mike