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

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:05:58 +0200
Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, David Gibson wrote:

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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.

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doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum.

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How many times has that happened recently? =C2=A0If it's fairly infre=

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It's infrequent because I've shyed away from cleaning up shared files,
precisely because I'm afraid of breaking arch/ppc.

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How about splitting the files on a per-case bases then? There are at least
95 files that would need to be duplicated (again) to make ppc independent
from powerpc, and most of these files are about userland interfaces where
duplication makes no sense at all.

Sure.  I said that in my previous reply too.

Some files in there (irq.h, ipic.h, dcr.h, i8259.h) already have large
parts hidden in #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE, so I guess for those it may
actually be interesting to split them in two again.

Yeah, for those it might.

josh