From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] ACPICA: move common private headers under kernel/acpi/acpica/
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:03:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108160304.GA30619@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107221017.GD17917@elte.hu>
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:10:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i still tend to regard kernel/* as the core Linux kernel, as code that can
> be improved infinitely (only subject to the laws of physics), without
> having to worry about how the ACPI spec wants certain things done.
>
> The moment you bring in "this has to work on BSD, etc." arguments it will
> be a never ending excuse for crap. Standards tend to create the _worst_
> possible code, because every vendor compromizes a bit on another vendor's
> crap, just to be able to get in their own important crap. So the more
> vendors there are in a standards group, the crappier the end result is
> technically.
>
> Also, ACPI is an environment/bootstrap detail well placed under
> drivers/acpi/ - why should it move to kernel/acpi/ ? The fact that it's
> used widely is immaterial - by that argument we could move arch/x86/ to
> kernel/x86/, and we could move drivers/ata/ to kernel/ata/ as well. (they
> are probably even more widely deployed than ACPI)
I agree. acpi has no business under kernel/.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 10:51 RFC - ACPI source code re-org Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 01/15] ACPI: create kernel/acpi/ Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 02/15] ACPI: delete include/acpi/platform/ Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 03/15] ACPICA: move common private headers under kernel/acpi/acpica/ Len Brown
2009-01-02 19:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 20:48 ` Len Brown
2009-01-07 22:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-08 16:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-01-09 4:34 ` Len Brown
2009-01-11 4:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 21:56 ` Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 04/15] ACPICA: acdebug.h is private Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 05/15] ACPICA: delete acdisasm.h Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 06/15] ACPICA: acdispat.h is private Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 07/15] ACPICA: acevents.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 08/15] ACPICA: acinterp.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:51 ` [PATCH 09/15] ACPICA: acnamesp.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 10/15] ACPICA: acopcode.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 11/15] ACPICA: acparser.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 12/15] ACPICA: acpredef.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 13/15] ACPICA: acresrc.h, amlresrc.h are private Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 14/15] ACPICA: actables.h is private Len Brown
2008-12-31 10:52 ` [PATCH 15/15] ACPICA: amlcode.h " Len Brown
2008-12-31 13:39 ` [PATCH 01/15] ACPI: create kernel/acpi/ Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-31 14:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-31 15:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 21:44 ` [incremental-PATCH-for-Sam's-Review] ACPI: use ccflags-y instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS Len Brown
2009-01-02 21:52 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-02 22:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 22:17 ` Len Brown
2009-01-02 22:46 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-02 21:30 ` [PATCH 01/15] ACPI: create kernel/acpi/ Len Brown
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