From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
Maen Suleiman <maen@marvell.com>,
Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>,
Shadi Ammouri <shadi@marvell.com>,
Eran Ben-Avi <benavi@marvell.com>,
Yehuda Yitschak <yehuday@marvell.com>,
Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] PCIe support for the Armada 370 and Armada XP SoCs
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:09:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130103160958.3edf3005@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130103143931.GA28451@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de>
Dear Thierry Reding,
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:39:31 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> Thomas' RFC series incited me to put in some more work on the Tegra
> PCIe controller driver. This in turn brought up an old issue: should
> we move PCIe controller drivers to some central location rather than
> keeping them in machine-specific directories? Last time I brought
> this up there was no consensus but I really think there's some value
> in keeping these drivers in a common location, especially now that a
> few people are starting to work on similar problems. It may also
> provide some more momentum to get the various DT implementations
> factored out of various architectures.
>
> Stephen proposed drivers/pci/host on IRC and I second that.
I for sure would be interested in a direction such as this one being
taken for PCI support. Having drivers in a common directory will help
comparing them, extracting common patterns, etc.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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[not found] <1354917879-32073-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-01-03 14:39 ` [RFC v1] PCIe support for the Armada 370 and Armada XP SoCs Thierry Reding
2013-01-03 15:00 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-01-03 15:11 ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-03 15:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-01-03 15:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-03 16:01 ` Thierry Reding
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