From 3d706d952cf238a60c5571e33329448b453a2ab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:15:00 +0100 Subject: 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 --- drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile') diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile b/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile index 501f00cea782..e47aca0ca5ae 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile +++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.2