From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:47:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821014707.GA15469@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C9B6DF.1000006@freescale.com>
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:32:43 -0500
> > Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >>Do we want to go and move stuff back out of arch/powerpc/kernel back
> >>into arch/ppc/kernel? or just include files?
> >
> >
> > What would be the point of doing that? I would think we want the
> > opposite, in that we want to reuse as much of arch/powerpc during
> > arch/ppc compiles as possible. Sort of shows how much is "left" to
> > port.
>
> The point would be to keep the two trees separate, so that one
> doesn't need to worry about breaking arch/ppc when making a change
> to arch/powerpc.
Exactly so. Having to be careful about not breaking arch/ppc when
doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-18 17:05 [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc Kumar Gala
2007-08-18 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2][POWERPC] Remove old includes from arch/ppc Kumar Gala
2007-08-18 17:09 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2][POWERPC] Copy over headers from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc that we need Kumar Gala
2007-08-18 17:11 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2][POWERPC] Stop include asm-ppc when building ARCH=powerpc for ppc32 Kumar Gala
2007-08-20 5:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-20 5:57 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-20 15:29 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-20 15:28 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-20 6:00 ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc David Gibson
2007-08-20 15:32 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-20 15:37 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-20 15:44 ` Scott Wood
2007-08-20 15:53 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-20 22:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-21 1:47 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-08-21 2:47 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-21 2:50 ` David Gibson
2007-08-21 12:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-21 12:56 ` Josh Boyer
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