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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:05:58 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, David Gibson wrote:
> >=20
> > > > > 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.
> > > >=20
> > > > Exactly so. =C2=A0Having to be careful about not breaking arch/ppc =
when
> > > > doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum.
> > >=20
> > > How many times has that happened recently? =C2=A0If it's fairly infre=
quent,
> >=20
> > It's infrequent because I've shyed away from cleaning up shared files,
> > precisely because I'm afraid of breaking arch/ppc.
>=20
> How about splitting the files on a per-case bases then? There are at least
> 95 files that would need to be duplicated (again) to make ppc independent
> from powerpc, and most of these files are about userland interfaces where
> duplication makes no sense at all.

Sure.  I said that in my previous reply too.

> Some files in there (irq.h, ipic.h, dcr.h, i8259.h) already have large
> parts hidden in #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE, so I guess for those it may
> actually be interesting to split them in two again.

Yeah, for those it might.

josh