Re: [PATCH 02/14] spufs: fix local store page refcounting

[Paul Mackerras]

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.

Paul.
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