Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:47:07 +1000
David Gibson [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

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Josh Boyer wrote:

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:32:43 -0500
Kumar Gala [off-list ref] wrote:

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Do we want to go and move stuff back out of arch/powerpc/kernel
back into arch/ppc/kernel?  or just include files?

What would be the point of doing that?  I would think we want the
opposite, in that we want to reuse as much of arch/powerpc during
arch/ppc compiles as possible.  Sort of shows how much is "left"
to port.

The point would be to keep the two trees separate, so that one
doesn't need to worry about breaking arch/ppc when making a change
to arch/powerpc.

Exactly so.  Having to be careful about not breaking arch/ppc when
doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum.

How many times has that happened recently?  If it's fairly infrequent,
then just do the split when you're doing the arch/powerpc cleanup.  I'm
still not convinced that doing a wholesale split again is worth the
effort.

But then again, I'm not opposed either.  Particularly if someone else
is doing the work :).  It simply doesn't make tons of sense to my
feeble little brain.  Seems like that time could be spent better
elsewhere.

josh