Re: [PATCH 02/14] spufs: fix local store page refcounting

Paul Mackerras
2005-12-06T21:23:17Z

Pekka Enberg writes:

> I would prefer them to stay in arch/powerpc/. As far as I understand,
> spufs will never have any use for platforms other than cell, so I really
> don't see any point in putting it in fs/.

The point is that people making changes to the filesystem interfaces
will be much more likely to notice and fix stuff that is under fs/
than code that is buried deep under arch/ somewhere. Filesystems
should go under fs/ for the sake of long-term maintainability. The
fact that it's only used on one architecture is irrelevant - you
simply make sure (with the appropriate Kconfig bits) that it's only
offered on that architecture.

Paul.