On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 david@mono.org wrote:

> 	I believe /sys/dev is for device specific code which is sharable
> 	between architectures - ie /sys/dev/ic/z8530* is the zilog 8530
> 	serial code shared between the sun3, sparc & I think mac68k.

Actually, the mac68k port uses a somewhat modified version of this code,
and hence is kept in the architecture-dependent part of the source tree.
Just a minor nit; the statement is otherwise absolutely valid.

--scott