Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:42:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > But will you accept this stuff now or will we have to wait until
> > next merge window?
> 
> if the patches are really small adn the resulting build is well tested 
> (ignoring the actual _move_ operation), I'm ok with taking them.

For arm the actual diff is:
 Makefile                 |   20 +++++++-------------
 boot/compressed/Makefile |    3 ---
 tools/Makefile           |    1 +
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

But on top of this there are ~600 files that needed a
replacement of:
#include <asm/arch/foo.h>
to
#include <arch/foo.h>

So maybe not such a minimal patch - because I wanted to drop all
the symlink stuff.

> 
> In fact, in many ways I'd _prefer_ to do it now, rather than have it 
> pending and then do it durign the next merge window when there are a lot 
> of non-movement changes too.
> 
> > Now is a good time as development just started for next kernel.
> > And testing is simple - does it build?
> 
> Well, simple and simple. I'd love to see x86 done, but you yourself said 
> you haven't even dared look at UM. Which is the thing that is most likely 
> to have odd build things with direct symlinks etc.
> 
> (But I haven't looked either. Maybe I'm wrong, and it's all trivial).
um i never trivial :-(
But I will give it a try - but I have to sleep first.

	Sam