From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:41:25 -0700 From: Val Henson To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Paul Mackerras , Linux/PPC Development Subject: Re: The Plan Message-ID: <20011107134125.O22194@boardwalk> References: <15337.7275.266062.777161@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:47:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:47:33PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > - Files which relate only to one platform, or a small number of > > platforms, move to arch/ppc/platforms. (There are some minor > > exceptions to this rule which we can discuss if people are > > concerned.) We end up with: > > Why not move platform-specific files to arch/ppc// instead? > > Your solution reduces the clutter only by a factor of 2, while creating > platform-specific directories reduces it by a factor of n. I agree with Geert. I don't think that dividing the clutter into two directories instead of one really improves matters. Each directory is still monstrously huge and the division is non-obvious. arch/ppc/masochist would be easier to understand. :) What is the problem we're trying to solve here? -VAL ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/