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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:10:49 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH take3 00/20] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 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.

Actually it's surprising how many patches do apply unchanged.
A massive file rename, *just for the sake of renaming*, would
mean no x86 patches would apply and gain nothing anyway.