Based on earlier thread "https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/7/662" and
further discussion at Kernel Summit'2013, it was agreed to create
'driver/soc' for drivers which are quite SOC specific.

Lets take the discussion forward with this patch.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <redacted>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <redacted>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Nair <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <redacted>
---
 drivers/Kconfig     |    2 ++
 drivers/Makefile    |    4 ++++
 drivers/soc/Kconfig |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/Kconfig

diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
index b3138fb..37f955f 100644
--- a/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/Kconfig

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/platform/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/soc/Kconfig"
+
 source "drivers/clk/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig"

diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index 8e3b8b0..0d8e2a4 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile

@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VHOST_RING)	+= vhost/
 obj-$(CONFIG_VLYNQ)		+= vlynq/
 obj-$(CONFIG_STAGING)		+= staging/
 obj-y				+= platform/
+
+# SOC specific drivers
+obj-y				+= soc/
+
 #common clk code
 obj-y				+= clk/
 

diff --git a/drivers/soc/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f9d7d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/soc/Kconfig

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+menu "SOC specific Drivers"
+
+endmenu

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