On 26 August 2014 23:32, Hauke Mehrtens [off-list ref] wrote:

On 08/25/2014 09:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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On Sunday 24 August 2014 23:24:41 Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

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 drivers/misc/Kconfig                               |  14 +
 drivers/misc/Makefile                              |   1 +
 drivers/misc/bcm47xx-sprom.c                       | 690 +++++++++++++++++++++

On a similar note, putting the driver into drivers/misc seems
suboptimal: misc drivers should by definition be something that
is for some odd hardware with no external dependencies on it,
whereas your driver seems to be used by multiple other drivers.

Would it make sense to put it into drivers/bcma when that is the
only bus it is used on?

As Jonas already said this code should be used for the bcm53xx ARM code
and the bcm47xx MIPS code and it is needed for drivers/bcma/ and
drivers/ssb/ (ssb only for old mips devices). Do you have any better
idea than putting this to drivers/misc/ ? For the mips SoC we need the
code very early and will not use the driver interface but probably
directly call the function name.

Ping? Does anyone have any better idea?

Both: nvram and sprom drivers will be used by bcm47xx (mips) and
bcm53xx (arm). They can't be put in drivers/bcma, as they are used by
drivers/ssb as well.