From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill i386 and x86_64 directories
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:39:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026073926.25dc56dc@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026062336.GA19253@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:23:36 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:53PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from
> > arch/x86/boot/bzImage. Now that the old directories are gone it does
> > not make much sense to keep them alive. Andrew will survive it :)
>
> It is not just Andrew I'm afraid.
> We got a Debian bug-report too when we did not have the symlink and I
> asume this is true for several others.
> We should let it stay in 2.6.24 and remove the symlink for 2.6.25 IMO.
that's the worst of all things to do... either make a change in ONE go,
when you do all the changes anyway (users will remmeber 2.6.24 was the
unification kernel, but 2.6.25 breaking stuff will be a total
surprise)... or keep them around forever. As long as it works, nobody
will change the scripts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 19:56 Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86 Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86: move defconfig files for i386 and x86_64 to x86 Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86: unification of i386 and x86_64 Kconfig.debug Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 23:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-25 23:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-25 23:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-26 1:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-26 4:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/6] kconfig: small code refactoring in kconfig Makefile Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86: move i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files to x86 directory Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26 1:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-26 2:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-26 5:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-26 6:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-26 6:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26 6:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-26 6:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:06 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:14 ` [PATCH 0/6] kill " Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:19 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-25 20:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-25 20:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-25 21:12 ` [GIT PULL] " Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26 6:23 ` [PATCH 0/6] " Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26 12:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-26 14:39 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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[not found] ` <9ihlw-193-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-10-26 3:30 ` Bodo Eggert
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