Re: [PATCH] arm64/pci: Add quirks for Cavium Thunder PCI bridges.

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 09/23/2015 11:40 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 01:09:56AM +0100, David Daney wrote:
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>>
>> The Cavium ThunderX SoC needs a PCI quirk for its on-chip bridges.
>> Since it is arm64, create a new quirks.c file there to contain arm64
>> related quirks.  Add the ThunderX bridge quirk, gated by a new config
>> variable, so that it can be disabled for kernels that aren't expected
>> to be used on ThunderX.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig         | 11 +++++++++++
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile |  2 +-
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/quirks.c
>
> Why does this have to live in the arch/arm64/ directory? The quirks have
> nothing to do with the architecture code.
>

It doesn't have to live there.  It is something that will never be used 
for any other architecture.  So I thought we could do like 
arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c

I could move it to drivers/pci/quirks.c if people think that is a much 
better place for it.

David Daney