From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753819AbXCSMSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:18:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753831AbXCSMSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:18:04 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:52506 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753819AbXCSMSD (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:18:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:17:52 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH take3 00/20] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 3 Message-ID: <20070319121752.GC2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070315051337.488091591@goodmis.org> <20070316102933.GB4185@elte.hu> <45FDE202.80807@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45FDE202.80807@redhat.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: >> what do you think about the idea i suggested: to do an x32_/x64_ prefix >> (or _32/_64 postfix), in a brute-force way, _right away_. I.e. do not >> have any overlap of having both arch/i386/ and arch/x86_64/ and >> arch/x86/ - move everything to arch/x86/ right now. On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:06:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > No, no, please don't do that. It would make backporting patches > for stable kernels a real pain. Moving only the common files > is the right way to go for a first cut... As if the patches come remotely close to applying in the first place. The filename patched is the least of the worries. -- wli