[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] drivers/usb : move usb drivers to drivers/usb

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:31:25 +0200
Markus Klotzbücher <mk at denx.de> wrote:

> 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 there is a network core layer which is presumably maintained by
someone, no?

> 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?!

Yes, that too. The idea is that USB is just another bus; when you go
looking for a driver for a specific network chip, you shouldn't have to
care about what kind of bus(es) that chip can be hooked up to.

Håvard