From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47CABB7D2A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:43:56 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:44:25 -0800 From: Jesse Barnes To: John Linn Subject: Re: Proposal to move PCI out of arch/powerpc and into drivers/of Message-ID: <20100226154425.00dde291@jbarnes-piketon> In-Reply-To: <27bab769-0788-4b48-96a7-ced65e40144c@SG2EHSMHS007.ehs.local> References: <27bab769-0788-4b48-96a7-ced65e40144c@SG2EHSMHS007.ehs.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, michal.simek@petalogix.com, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, John Williams List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:07:59 -0700 John Linn wrote: > Hi all, > > We are in the process of putting PCI/PCIe into the microblaze > architecture. > > In order to not duplicate/fork the PCI code in Powerpc, we're > proposing to move the PCI code from arch/powerpc into drivers/of such > that it would be common code for Powerpc and MicroBlaze. > > This would be the 1st part of a refactoring that would occur with the > PCI code. > > Ben H., would you mind if that happened (move arch/powerpc/kernel/pci* > to drivers/of/*)? Dave and Ben have been talking about this for awhile; seems like a good excuse to do it. IIRC they had even thought about just dumping the code directly into drivers/pci so that API updates won't get missed... -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center