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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/*
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:25:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459694367-18635-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:39:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> We have growing number of mach-* directories in arch/arm, and I guess
> it might be a good time to discuss moving them into a sub-directory.

What does it buy us?  Let me summarise the actual change:

- Move up to 71 arch/arm/mach-* directories to arch/arm/platforms/*,
  which just means another level of directory structure.  We still
  end up with up to 71 directories in arch/arm/platforms/

- The ability to use obj-y rather than machine-y, where both already
  work in the same way.

Is there anything I missed?

If that is all, then I really do not like this change - it's seems
to be churn for no benefit, and that's something we really should be
minimising.  Linus Torvalds has historically moaned at the ARM
architecture for stuff like this.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-03 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-03 14:39 [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] ARM: prepare arch/arm/platforms for immigration Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] ARM: uniphier: move mach-uniphier/ to platforms/uniphier/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] ARM: zynq: move mach-zynq/ to platforms/zynq/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] ARM: sunxi: move mach-sunxi/ to platforms/sunxi/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] ARM: socfpga: move mach-socfpga/ to platforms/socfpga/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] ARM: rockchip: move mach-rockchip/ to platforms/rockchip/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] ARM: mediatek: move mach-mediatek/ to platforms/mediatek/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] ARM: highbank: move mach-highbank/ to platforms/highbank/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 14:39 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] ARM: bcm: move mach-bcm/ to platforms/bcm/ Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-03 18:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2016-04-04  1:53   ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Florian Fainelli
2016-04-04  1:57   ` Masahiro Yamada
2016-04-04 19:02   ` Olof Johansson

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