i2c: chips subdirectory is deprecated
PATCH 1/1 i2c: chips subdirectory is deprecated
Let driver authors know that drivers/i2c/chips is usually the wrong place for new drivers.
Signed-off-by Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
--- drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile +7 -0
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ # # Makefile for miscellaneous I2C chip drivers. # +# Think twice before you add a new driver to this directory. +# Device drivers are better grouped according to the functionality they +# implement rather than to the bus they are connected to. In particular: +# * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon +# * RTC chip drivers go to drivers/rtc +# * I/O expander drivers go to drivers/gpio +# obj-$(CONFIG_DS1682) += ds1682.o obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM) += eeprom.o
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