From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:42:08 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] Move lib_<ARCH> directories
	to	lib/<ARCH>
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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