On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I too had similar query. > I have written a PCIe host driver for SPEAr platform (ARM Arch). > This driver is registered on paltform bus. > It is for Designware IP, so I believe that most of its part > can be re-usaable for other person. > have kept common and SPEAr specific part separately. > But, I am not sure about its best location. > I believe best would have been to keep in driver/pci/pcie/hosts/. > But it uses pci_common_init function which is specific to ARM platform. > So it limits option to arch/arm. > But, if I keep it in arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/ , then it will limit others > from using synopsys specific code. > > What do you suggest? If it uses ARM-specific functions, I think somewhere in arch/arm/ makes the most sense. There are some arches (parisc comes to mind) that do have arch-specific code in drivers/, but until it can be usefully shared, that doesn't seem worthwhile to me. We can always move it later. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
