soc: Introduce drivers/soc place-holder for SOC specific drivers

Based on earlier thread "https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/7/662" and
discussion at Kernel Summit'2013, it was agreed to create
'driver/soc' for drivers which are quite SOC specific.

Further discussion on the subject is in response to
the earlier version of the patch is here:
	http://lwn.net/Articles/588942/

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Nair <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
index 0a0a90f52d26f3e72c48c68c56cbc93d6b4d3973..0e87a34b6472e65c62c1d4b4bdd3d6ac49dc3624 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/platform/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/soc/Kconfig"
+
 source "drivers/clk/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig"

diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index e3ced91b1784af3881de45870427a37a2d2dc029..5367b51d6efdabd2d977f6255264d53353362906 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ obj-y                         += amba/
 # really early.
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMADEVICES)       += dma/
 
+# SOC specific infrastructure drivers.
+obj-y                          += soc/
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO)           += virtio/
 obj-$(CONFIG_XEN)              += xen/
 

diff --git a/drivers/soc/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..339baa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/soc/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+menu "SOC (System On Chip) specific Drivers"
+
+endmenu