qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers

[Scott Wood]

On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 03:53 -0500, Zhao Qiang-B45475 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:19 AM, Wood Scott wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:19 AM
> > To: Zhao Qiang-B45475
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421; Xie Xiaobo-R63061
> > Subject: Re: qe: move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31:52AM +0800, Zhao Qiang wrote:
> > > ls1 has qe and ls1 has arm cpu.
> > > move qe from arch/powerpc to drivers.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <B45475 at freescale.com>
> > 
> > This is a very terse changelog.  Explain more about what QE is, and what
> > this patch accomplishes (it doesn't seem to get rid of the PPC dependency,
> > just moving code at this stage)
> > 
> > I don't see a MAINTAINERS update for the new path.  Who is going to
> > maintain it?
> > 
> > I don't think drivers/qe is the right place for it.  Directories directly
> > under drivers/ tend to be for classes of devices, not instances.  In any
> > case, LKML should be CCed when creating a new directory directly under
> > drivers/ or under a subdirectory of drivers/ that doesn't have its own
> > mailing list.
> 
> So which directory do you recommend?

drivers/soc/

> Actually qe is a kind of IP block, so in my opinion, it is proper to put it under driver/(just in my opinion).

No, it isn't a type of device (e.g. "ethernet" or "tty").  It's an
abbreviation of a trademark for a specific multipurpose I/O
architecture.

-Scott