From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754978AbYG3T2o (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754046AbYG3T2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:28:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39720 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754025AbYG3T2d (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:28:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4890C09B.3000701@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:27:23 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Jeff Dike , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86: use arch/x86/include References: <20080730124952.GA23413@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080730180411.GA7896@elte.hu> <20080730184700.GA29710@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080730191907.GD26389@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080730191907.GD26389@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > But fortunately you've scripted all this, so i guess we can do it at any > stage. Could you send the script we should run? > That's really the sanest way to deal with all this. If this is already automated, then we can script-generate a roving (constantly rebased) pseudo-branch, and apply it formally before pushing it up to Linus. Restructuring changes are hideously messy, because they're orthogonal to everything else that's going on. The x86 merge itself and all that went along with it is a great example. -hpa