From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:14:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070911211422.GU3563@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709112138.11247.ak@suse.de>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:38:10PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>...
> In the end it won't make much difference where the files are located
> (although I frankly don't see the advantage of this intrusive move).
>
> You always have to at least compile test both if you change one and I doubt
> most people will be able to avoid this no matter how the Makefile looks
> or where the files are.
>...
The important point is:
People do not expect code under arch/i386/ to be used by code under
arch/x86_64/ and vice versa.
That regularly results in people sending patches that don't compile on
the other architecture.
With one architecture it's much more obvious that the code is shared.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 21:14 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
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 [this message]
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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