From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:52:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020929185228.GB28028@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020929192758.D15924@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 07:27:58PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> The ARM port used to have arch/arm/drivers/{block,char,net,sound} but
> this was decried by _other_ people in the ARM community to be too
> painful, and I was literally hounded into moving them into drivers.
>
> I don't want to go back to arch/arm/drivers now, thanks.
Out of curiousity, why was this considered painful ?
Not that I change my original proposition of disinfecting
arch/i386/kernel/ Rather than proposing to set a standard
for all arch's to conform to, I had the sole intention of
trying to cut down some of the growth in that dir by factoring
out the more common things (which were CPU drivers)
Dave
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2002-09-27 21:30 ` [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling Matt Domsch
2002-09-27 22:33 ` Greg KH
2002-09-29 16:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 16:18 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-29 16:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 18:20 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-09-29 18:27 ` Russell King
2002-09-29 18:52 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-10-01 1:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-01 3:37 Matt_Domsch
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2002-09-30 4:32 Matt_Domsch
2002-09-11 19:09 Matt_Domsch
2002-09-12 18:00 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-12 18:48 ` Matt Domsch
2002-09-10 22:43 Matt_Domsch
2002-09-09 1:17 Matt_Domsch
2002-09-04 0:54 Matt_Domsch
2002-09-04 1:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04 4:17 ` Greg KH
2002-09-08 0:39 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-03 22:05 Matt Domsch
2002-09-03 23:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04 4:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-04 16:02 ` Matt Domsch
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