Re: [GIT PULL] x86: use arch/x86/include

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi x86 guys.
>>
>> It turned out to be easy to enable um to use arch/x86/include so here 
>> is a git pull.
> 
> hm, we have a _ton_ of changes to include files queued up already, so 
> this is rather inconvenient.

Git *should* be able to track those changes across a rename and even 
with a rename on one branch and changes on another; in my experience it 
works well for filename renames, but git doesn't understand directory 
renames at all, so new files do have to be moved to their new locations 
manually.

> I missed the discussion on this, what's the point of renaming all these 
> files?

I know there has been talk about this on and off for a long time (to get 
all the arch code into arch/).  I don't know if there are any mechanical 
reasons for it, on top of that.

	-hpa