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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2008-03-12 14:15:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@hyperion.delvare> | 2008-03-12 14:15:00 +0100 |
| commit | 3d706d952cf238a60c5571e33329448b453a2ab9 (patch) | |
| tree | 6169a73ca419f57d171c30d60b7e7a33786693bd /drivers/i2c | |
| parent | 50c3304a5e1e5217fc6b58fb686edc7d1114f2fa (diff) | |
i2c: chips subdirectory is deprecated
Let driver authors know that drivers/i2c/chips is usually the wrong place
for new drivers.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/i2c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile b/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile index 501f00cea782..e47aca0ca5ae 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile +++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ # # Makefile for miscellaneous I2C chip drivers. # +# Think twice before you add a new driver to this directory. +# Device drivers are better grouped according to the functionality they +# implement rather than to the bus they are connected to. In particular: +# * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon +# * RTC chip drivers go to drivers/rtc +# * I/O expander drivers go to drivers/gpio +# obj-$(CONFIG_DS1682) += ds1682.o obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM) += eeprom.o |