Re: [RFC 1/6] powerpc:/drc Define interface to acquire arch-specific drc info

[Michael Ellerman]

Michael Bringmann <mwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 1/25/19 10:09 AM, Michael Bringmann wrote:
>> Adding Nathan Lynch
>> 
>> On 1/24/19 6:04 PM, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
>>> On 12/14/2018 12:50 PM, Michael Bringmann wrote:
>>>> Define interface to acquire arch-specific drc info to match against
>>>> hotpluggable devices.  The current implementation exposes several
>>>> pseries-specific dynamic memory properties in generic kernel code.
>>>> This patch set provides an interface to pull that code out of the
>>>> generic kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  include/linux/topology.h |    9 +++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
>>>> index cb0775e..df97f5f 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/topology.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/topology.h
>>>> @@ -44,6 +44,15 @@
>>>
>>> As far as I know pseries is the only platform that uses DR connectors, and I
>>> highly doubt that any other powerpc platform or arch ever will. So, I'm not sure
>>> that this is really generic enough to belong in topology.h. If anything I would
>>> suggest putting this in an include in arch/powerpc/include/ named something like
>>> drcinfo.h or pseries-drc.h. That will make it visible to modules like rpaphp
>>> that want/need to use this functionality.
>
> It looks like the 'rpaphp' and 'rpadlpar_io' modules are also dependent upon the
> powerpc platform.

Yes that's right.

> Shouldn't the relevant source files be moved completely to the
> powerpc-specific directories out of drivers/pci/hotplug as well?

I don't think so. They are PCI hotplug drivers, so they should sit with
the other PCI hotplug drivers.

It's true that PCI hotplug drivers are more platform specific than other
types of drivers, but still they have some things in common with other
PCI hotplug drivers.

cheers