From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752435AbaANQrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:47:20 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52759 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438AbaANQkW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:40:22 -0500 Message-ID: <52D56856.9050201@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:39:50 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar 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 References: <52D56174.9010608@zytor.com> <20140114162203.GB31037@gmail.com> <20140114163617.GA29871@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20140114163617.GA29871@pd.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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