From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262774AbULQI1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:27:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262782AbULQI1b (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:27:31 -0500 Received: from mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.0.15]:5014 "EHLO mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262774AbULQI0b (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:26:31 -0500 To: Andi Kleen cc: Ian Pratt , Andrew Morton , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: arch/xen is a bad idea In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:04:56 +0100." <20041217060456.GD12049@wotan.suse.de> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:26:17 +0000 From: Ian Pratt Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Ian Pratt wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not convinced that maintaining xen/i386 in its current form > > > > is going to be as hard as Andi thinks. We already share many > > > > files unmodified from i386. > > > > > > How are they shared? Inclusion, symlinks, makefile references or > > > > The makefile creates symlinks. > > That's deprecated because it breaks with separate objdirs (make O=/other/dir) > See the x86-64 makefiles on how to do it properly. Ah, I wasn't previously aware of the O= capability to know that we were breaking it. We can trivially change over to referencing files in arch/i386 directly from the Makefile. The only downside is that it will make navigating the source slightly harder. Ian