From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:03:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20131029190358.GB13047@fifo99.com> References: <1382993006-27359-1-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <1382993006-27359-3-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <20131029132043.GA28165@fifo99.com> <20131029170817.GA13047@fifo99.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:38062 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876Ab3J2TEL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:04:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Olof Johansson Cc: David Brown , Bryan Huntsman , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Kevin Hilman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:39:45AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > Personally I think splitting mach- stuff isn't very useful or > > interesting.. There's just no technical reason for it, for example x86 > > and x86_64 was a win from my perspective , there's a lot more reason to > > keep similar things together than to split things up. > > There are definitely valid technical reasons for it; the old and new > platforms share no code, and the legacy platforms are unlikely to be > updated to modern infrastructure anytime soon. Other platforms are > managed in similar manners, such as OMAP, imx/mxs, etc. Are you speaking from a meta perspective , or you have specific example in msm code ? Daniel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dwalker@fifo99.com (Daniel Walker) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:03:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support In-Reply-To: References: <1382993006-27359-1-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <1382993006-27359-3-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <20131029132043.GA28165@fifo99.com> <20131029170817.GA13047@fifo99.com> Message-ID: <20131029190358.GB13047@fifo99.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:39:45AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > Personally I think splitting mach- stuff isn't very useful or > > interesting.. There's just no technical reason for it, for example x86 > > and x86_64 was a win from my perspective , there's a lot more reason to > > keep similar things together than to split things up. > > There are definitely valid technical reasons for it; the old and new > platforms share no code, and the legacy platforms are unlikely to be > updated to modern infrastructure anytime soon. Other platforms are > managed in similar manners, such as OMAP, imx/mxs, etc. Are you speaking from a meta perspective , or you have specific example in msm code ? Daniel