From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751780AbaANRic (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:38:32 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:37135 "EHLO mail-ee0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbaANRib (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:38:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:38:27 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@suse.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location Message-ID: <20140114173827.GA2679@gmail.com> References: <52D56174.9010608@zytor.com> <20140114162203.GB31037@gmail.com> <20140114163617.GA29871@pd.tnic> <52D56856.9050201@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52D56856.9050201@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/14/2014 08:36 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:22:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> Absolutely. I think moving arch/x86/kernel/cpu/ to arch/x86/cpu/ > >> would be a first good step. It's all kernel code, there's other > >> subdirectories there that are kernel code ('pci/', 'platform/', etc.), > >> so there's little point in continuing the historic accident of a > >> 'kernel/' subdirectory. > >> > >> Once that is done we can move certain things outside as well - for > >> example arch/x86/cpu/perf/ could probably move to arch/x86/events/, > >> because that code is not about CPU events anymore either. > > > > All fine and dandy with me, but I'd prefer to do this after the merge > > window, i.e. for 3.15. Rushing it now would just cause unnecessary > > trouble IMO. > > > > Oh, absolutely. Agreed. Thanks, Ingo