create drivers/platform/x86/ from drivers/misc/
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:09:47 +0000 (00:09 -0500)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:42:32 +0000 (04:42 -0500)
commit41b16dce390510f550a4d2b12b98e0258bbed6e2
tree03f668f70c47e7d6319a1b5fc21aa0634254cdb1
parent8c36790a21eec6c39c372e92c76e81865005a6ce
create drivers/platform/x86/ from drivers/misc/

Move x86 platform specific drivers from drivers/misc/
to a new home under drivers/platform/x86/.

The community has been maintaining x86 vendor-specific
platform specific drivers under /drivers/misc/ for a few years.
The oldest ones started life under drivers/acpi.
They moved out of drivers/acpi/ because they don't actually
implement the ACPI specification, but either simply
use ACPI, or implement vendor-specific ACPI extensions.

In the future we anticipate...
drivers/misc/ will go away.
other architectures will create drivers/platform/<arch>

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
20 files changed:
drivers/Kconfig
drivers/Makefile
drivers/misc/Kconfig
drivers/misc/Makefile
drivers/platform/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/x86/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c [moved from drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/compal-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/compal-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/fujitsu-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c [moved from drivers/misc/hp-wmi.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/intel_menlow.c [moved from drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/msi-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/msi-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/panasonic-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c [moved from drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/tc1100-wmi.c [moved from drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c with 100% similarity]
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c [moved from drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c with 100% similarity]