Re: [PATCH 00/12] Thumb-2 kernel support

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:45 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 12:08 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:10:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Well.  Rather than doing things sequentially we could go parallel. 
> > > > Russell could say "I'll look at them before 2.6.28 but please put them
> > > > into linux-next meanwhile".
> > > 
> > > There have been some valid but (iirc) non-vocal objections to the
> > > Thumb-2 support from a few people.  The biggest one is all the
> > > mess associated with supporting this "unified" assembler stuff.
> > 
> > My first implementation of these patches (last year) created a separate
> > arch/ directory and a lot of people objected to this recommending to
> > merge it into the existing arch/arm. Once I posted the re-worked
> > implementation there were no big .
> 
> It looks like I didn't finish the above phrase - I meant no big
> objections to the conditional compilation or someone stating clearly
> that this is unacceptable.

And that's partly what I find rather frustrating.  I _know_ that people
have issues with it, but they haven't raised them.