From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: 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
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:39:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D56856.9050201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140114163617.GA29871@pd.tnic>
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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-14 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <tip-bad5fa631fca5466401cd4a48e30cc1f1cb6101e@git.kernel.org>
2014-01-14 16:10 ` [tip:x86/microcode] x86, microcode: Move to a proper location H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 16:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-14 16:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 16:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-14 17:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-14 18:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 19:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 19:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
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