From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44ACDDEE6 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:44:37 +1000 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Josh Boyer , Scott Wood , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:05:58 +0200 References: <20070820214730.1b3b6fd6@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> <20070821025015.GN15469@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070821025015.GN15469@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200708211405.59226.arnd@arndb.de> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tuesday 21 August 2007, David Gibson wrote: >=20 > > > > The point would be to keep the two trees separate, so that one > > > > doesn't need to worry about breaking arch/ppc when making a change > > > > to arch/powerpc. > > >=20 > > > Exactly so. =A0Having to be careful about not breaking arch/ppc when > > > doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum. > >=20 > > How many times has that happened recently? =A0If it's fairly infrequent, >=20 > It's infrequent because I've shyed away from cleaning up shared files, > precisely because I'm afraid of breaking arch/ppc. How about splitting the files on a per-case bases then? There are at least 95 files that would need to be duplicated (again) to make ppc independent from powerpc, and most of these files are about userland interfaces where duplication makes no sense at all. Some files in there (irq.h, ipic.h, dcr.h, i8259.h) already have large parts hidden in #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE, so I guess for those it may actually be interesting to split them in two again. Arnd <><