Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling

Dave Jones
2002-09-29T18:44:33Z

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 07:27:58PM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> The ARM port used to have arch/arm/drivers/{block,char,net,sound} but
> this was decried by _other_ people in the ARM community to be too
> painful, and I was literally hounded into moving them into drivers.
>
> I don't want to go back to arch/arm/drivers now, thanks.

Out of curiousity, why was this considered painful ?
Not that I change my original proposition of disinfecting
arch/i386/kernel/ Rather than proposing to set a standard
for all arch's to conform to, I had the sole intention of
trying to cut down some of the growth in that dir by factoring
out the more common things (which were CPU drivers)

Dave

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