From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755719AbXFPSiq (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:38:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752492AbXFPSih (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:38:37 -0400 Received: from barikada.upol.cz ([158.194.242.200]:35205 "EHLO barikada.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752396AbXFPSih (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:38:37 -0400 To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Chris Wright , Arjan van de Ven , Venkatesh Pallipadi , LKML Subject: Separate arch patching (Re: [patch-mm 06/25] clockevents: Fix resume logic) In-Reply-To: <20070616101636.756850073@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de> References: <20070616101126.296384219@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de> <20070616101636.756850073@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de> Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department. User-Agent: jed (x86_64-pc-linux-glibc-debian) X-Mailer: slrn Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:51:04 +0200 Message-Id: From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * From: Thomas Gleixner [] > Fixup the existing users. > > This removes the sysfs entry for the HPET, which is now controlled by > the clockevents resume code. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > --- > arch/arm/mach-davinci/time.c | 2 + > arch/arm/mach-imx/time.c | 1 > arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/common.c | 2 + > arch/arm/mach-omap1/time.c | 1 > arch/arm/plat-omap/timer32k.c | 2 + Testers and users are most likely to run one particular arch on one particular test bench. If individual patches are arch separated, i think bisecting will be a little bit easier. Thus, i would like to propose separate arch patching (x86_64/i386 mainly). Is it possible to do that? (And even set such check in ``checkpatch''?) You would say, why? Because current kbuild/kconfig support of builds for whole tree. That's because to make download, build, test and debug particular arch more easily, i'm trying to re-think and re-do some kbuild parts. With minimum set of files, downloaded with git one can spend less time/bandwidth for starting testing. > arch/i386/kernel/apic.c | 3 + > arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c | 71 ++------------------------------------ > arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c | 26 ++++++------- > arch/i386/kernel/vmiclock.c | 1 > arch/i386/xen/time.c | 1 Opinions? > arch/sh/kernel/timers/timer-tmu.c | 1 > arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c | 1 ____