Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Pekka Enberg writes:
>
> > I would prefer them to stay in arch/powerpc/. As far as I understand,
> > spufs will never have any use for platforms other than cell, so I really
> > don't see any point in putting it in fs/.
>
> The point is that people making changes to the filesystem interfaces
> will be much more likely to notice and fix stuff that is under fs/
> than code that is buried deep under arch/ somewhere. Filesystems
> should go under fs/ for the sake of long-term maintainability. The
> fact that it's only used on one architecture is irrelevant - you
> simply make sure (with the appropriate Kconfig bits) that it's only
> offered on that architecture.
openpromfs seems to be a precedent here. It makes sense only on sparc
and sparc64 but it lives in fs/.
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