Dear Håvard,
Haavard Skinnemoen hskinnemoen@atmel.com writes:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:14:26 +0200 plagnioj@jcrosoft.com wrote:
drivers/usb/serial/
- e.g. serial support
FWIW, Linux seems to be moving away from this structure. USB networking drivers are now under drivers/net, for example. Rationale (from the commit log):
It is preferable to group drivers by usage (net, scsi, ATA, ...) than by bus. When reviewing drivers, the [PCI|USB|PCMCIA|...] maintainer is probably less qualified on networking issues than a networking maintainer. Also, from a practical standpoint, chips often appear on multiple buses, which is why we do not put drivers into drivers/pci/net.which doesn't necessarily mean that u-boot should do the same, but I think we should consider it. Besides, how many USB serial drivers apart from CDC are there, really?
I get your point, but I think U-Boot is somewhat different from linux here. It might just as well be a architecture custodian or board maintainer that that takes care of USB device XY. And as Wolfgang pointed out custodians have to maintain code distributed across different directories already (see POST layer).
But maybe it would make the upcoming kconfig system more intuitive if a usb net driver was found under drivers-net instead of drivers-usb?!
Best regards
Markus Klotzbücher
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