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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] spufs: fix local store page refcounting
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:14:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051206221434.GB8901@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17301.65082.251692.675360@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 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.

openpromfs seems to be a precedent here.  It makes sense only on sparc
and sparc64 but it lives in fs/.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20051206035220.097737000@localhost>
     [not found] ` <200512061118.19633.arnd@arndb.de>
     [not found]   ` <1133869108.7968.1.camel@localhost>
2005-12-06 18:49     ` [PATCH 02/14] spufs: fix local store page refcounting Arnd Bergmann
2005-12-06 19:05       ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-06 21:10         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-12-06 21:41           ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-06 22:19             ` Paul Mackerras
2005-12-06 22:27               ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-12-07  2:26               ` Al Viro
2005-12-07  3:15                 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-12-07  8:21                   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-07 10:17                   ` Al Viro
2005-12-06 22:14           ` Nathan Lynch [this message]

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