From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:34:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070911203412.GS3563@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070911201219.GA9674@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>...
> In a meged x86 tree it would be very beneficial to either include
> in the filename that a specific file is i386 or x86_64 specific or
> stuff them in a separate subdirectory.
>
> If legacy.c numa.c, pcibios.c and visws.c placed in a directory named i386
> then it would be obvious that this is i386 only.
> Or they could be named filename_32 (or the uglier filename_i386).
> As it stands out today the filename are kept but thier relationship are lost.
>...
I'm not agreeing with you on this.
It seems artificial to think 32bit<->64bit was the only interesting
distinction on x86 machines.
You might as well create different directories for i386<->i486+ or
pre-i686<->i686+.
As an example, visws.c is as much non-64bit as it is pre-i686.
> Sam
cu
Adrian
--
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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 20:12 x86 merge - a little feedback Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-11 20:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-11 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-11 20:34 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-09-11 21:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-11 21:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 9:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-12 12:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-09-11 20:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-11 21:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 21:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-11 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-12 18:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 21:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 0:29 ` Paul Mundt
2007-09-15 10:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 9:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 18:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-16 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-11 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-12 19:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
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