Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966608Ab0BZXn5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:43:57 -0500 Received: from outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.11]:60226 "HELO outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S966595Ab0BZXn4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:43:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=maL9/JSctNpTRbMtlHHm/rF0DrI5+l8Ugl0ZRBdMZCuFhrs6JrNegHBNcQTx4w2cxdTW8SXKnsWEIklKKfl/x6L2AvdGpOCvQ2ggSlX7u4pyhugQrS8t9XnQfibR8wH2; Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:44:25 -0800 From: Jesse Barnes To: John Linn Cc: , , , , , "John Williams" , , 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 29 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/