Proposal to move PCI out of arch/powerpc and into drivers/of

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:07:59 -0700
John Linn <John.Linn at xilinx.com> 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