From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BE9B389.7F02F21F@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 14:19:53 -0800 From: Frank Rowand Reply-To: frowand@mvista.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulus@samba.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux/PPC Development Subject: Re: The Plan References: <15337.7275.266062.777161@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <15337.8185.840818.69643@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > > 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. > > But adds n extra directories, most of which would only have 2 or 3 > files in them, thereby cluttering up arch/ppc. One advantage of having arch/ppc// is that it allows for the possibility of arch/ppc/platform/, which is a link to the specific which is being built. This would be similar to the way that include/asm/ is a link to include/asm-/ -Frank -- Frank Rowand MontaVista Software, Inc ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/