From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:18:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Update kernel math-emu code from current glibc soft-fp Message-Id: <1435702685.24693.3.camel@ellerman.id.au> References: <1435634913.24866.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Archive: List-Post: To: Joseph Myers Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, "David S.Miller" , schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com List-ID: On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:48 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > Is there some way you can imagine of splitting this up into smaller chunks, so > > that different arches can merge the pieces separately? > > Well, it could be split as: > > 1. Rename include/math-emu to math-emu-old and update architectures for > the renaming (mechanically). > > 2. Add new include/math-emu. > > 3,4,5,6,7. Move each architecture from math-emu-old to math-emu. > > 8. Remove math-emu-old. > > You still have patch 1 affecting all five architectures, but with the > per-architecture changes being much simpler. OK. That's obviously a bit more churn, but I think it's probably the best approach. Unless someone else has a better idea? cheers