From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:25:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1459694367-18635-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1459694367-18635-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Masahiro Yamada Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , Rob Herring , Emilio =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?= , Mark Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Matthias Brugger , Marcus Cooper , Maxime Ripard List-Id: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org 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. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.