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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 -
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:33 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Mar 14 2007 10:46, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> >> symbolic links perhaps? In that case i'd also introduce a common naming 
> >> scheme: x86_early_printk.c - to make sure we know it right away that 
> >> those files are bi-arch.
> >
> >Does the Linux code tree already support sym links? IOW, are there
> >already sym links in the code tree? (/me probably should just look ;)
> 
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386

That's created at build time.  But I don't see anywhere in a freshly
cloned repo or fresh untar of the linux tarball, where there exists any
symbolic links.

-- Steve