1 From 2dac9498966c79a6abb09764419ffd42a44c78cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
3 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:46:17 -0400
4 Subject: [PATCH 083/182] soc: Introduce drivers/soc place-holder for SOC
7 Based on earlier thread "https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/7/662" and
8 discussion at Kernel Summit'2013, it was agreed to create
9 'driver/soc' for drivers which are quite SOC specific.
11 Further discussion on the subject is in response to
12 the earlier version of the patch is here:
13 http://lwn.net/Articles/588942/
15 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
16 Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
17 Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
18 Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
19 Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
20 Signed-off-by: Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@ti.com>
21 Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
22 Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
24 drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++
25 drivers/Makefile | 3 +++
26 drivers/soc/Kconfig | 3 +++
27 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
28 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/Kconfig
30 diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
31 index e0a4ae6..a299cbd 100644
34 @@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/Kconfig"
36 source "drivers/platform/Kconfig"
38 +source "drivers/soc/Kconfig"
40 source "drivers/clk/Kconfig"
42 source "drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig"
43 diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
44 index 3d6de8b..4c2bdc1 100644
45 --- a/drivers/Makefile
46 +++ b/drivers/Makefile
47 @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ obj-y += amba/
49 obj-$(CONFIG_DMADEVICES) += dma/
51 +# SOC specific infrastructure drivers.
54 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO) += virtio/
55 obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen/
57 diff --git a/drivers/soc/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
59 index 0000000..339baa8
61 +++ b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
63 +menu "SOC (System On Chip) specific Drivers"