Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:31:27 +0100 (BST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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       Uli Luckas <u.luckas@road.de>,
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Earlier I2C initialization
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:

> That being said, I'm not sure if the comparison with the PCI subsystem
> holds... I am under the impression that PCI bus handling doesn't
> require dedicated drivers? At least I can't see any under drivers/pci.

 Of course it does require them.  It is just due to their very nature they
tend to be placed under arch/, although there are some cases where the
same system controller can be used for a range of processors (e.g. some
Marvell chips can be used either with MIPS or PowerPC CPUs) and they might
be arguably put in a place more suitable for sharing between
architectures.  See arch/mips/pci/ for an example of a generous bunch of
PCI host drivers.

  Maciej
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