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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus
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        Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com
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>> >>[plip driver]
>> ...
>> >[in dev/ppbus/if_lp.c]
>> 
>> 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.)

Bruce