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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] Move lib_<ARCH> directories to	lib/<ARCH>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:42:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1D76B0.1040900@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091207213211.8EA773F6CC@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Peter Tyser,
> 
> In message <1258943983.9357.20.camel@ptyser-laptop> you wrote:
>> My personal preference would be to take it a step further and organize
>> like:
>>
>> /arch/$ARCH/
>> 	/lib/<sources currently in lib_$ARCH/>
>> 	/include/asm/<headers currently in incluce/asm-$ARCH/>
>> 	/cpu/<appropriate cpu directories in cpu/>
>> 	/config.mk (old lib_$ARCH/config.mk)
>>
>> /lib/
>>         /<source files currently in lib_generic>
>>         /libfdt/
>>         /lzma/
>>         /lzo/
>>
>> This layout would more closely match the Linux layout and is cleaner
>> overall in my opinion.  What do others think of this idea?
> 
> I generally agree with the idea, with the exception of
> /include/asm/<headers> - I really hate this change in the Linux
> kernel, and still fail to see any advantages of this.

I really like only having one subtree to grep for arch stuff, and it 
would avoid presenting files that are in git, under a path that git 
doesn't know about.

Plus, the symlink is one less thing that the makefiles would need to 
keep in sync when arch changes.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 16:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] Clean up top-level directory structure Peter Tyser
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] Move architecture specific config.mk files into subdirs Peter Tyser
2009-07-20 22:12   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] Move lib_<ARCH> directories to lib/<ARCH> Peter Tyser
2009-11-22 20:54   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-11-23  2:39     ` Peter Tyser
2009-12-07 21:32       ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-12-07 21:42         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-12-08  5:39           ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/6] Move lib_generic to lib/generic Peter Tyser
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/6] Move libfdt to lib/libfdt Peter Tyser
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] Move examples/ to examples/standalone Peter Tyser
2009-07-10 17:07   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-20 22:13   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-22 21:56   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix "ld: cannot find -lstubs" build error Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-10 16:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/6] Move api_examples to examples/api Peter Tyser
2009-07-20 22:14   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-11  0:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] Clean up top-level directory structure Shinya Kuribayashi
2009-07-11  0:40   ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-11  1:20     ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2009-07-11  2:42       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-12 12:54         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2009-07-14 15:20           ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-15  3:25             ` Stefan Roese
2009-07-15  3:38             ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2009-07-15  4:39               ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-18 11:19                 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2009-07-18 16:37                   ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-18 16:39                     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2009-07-18 18:07                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-19 20:01                       ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-19 20:16                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-20 22:15                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-20 23:09                           ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-15 14:50             ` Rafal Jaworowski
2009-07-18 16:52               ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-18 18:10                 ` Wolfgang Denk

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