From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762263AbXGUFmB (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:42:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755580AbXGUFly (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:41:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58699 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755384AbXGUFlx (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:41:53 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: "Michal Piotrowski" Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:40:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" , LKML , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Chris Wright" , "Steven Rostedt" References: <1184970779.4012.38.camel@chaos> <6bffcb0e0707201655q664202e6v29b4e678de1b0d80@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0707201655q664202e6v29b4e678de1b0d80@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707210740.19227.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 21 July 2007 01:55, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 21/07/07, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > We are pleased to announce a project we've been working on for some > > time: the unified x86 architecture tree, or "arch/x86" - and we'd like > > to solicit feedback about it. > > > > What is this about? > > [..] > > > As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome! > > I really like this idea - code duplication is a bad thing. Did you actually look at the patch? It doesn't have a single line less duplication than there was before. Everything that could be easily shared was shared already. It's just new window dressing without any real advantages. -Andi