From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422919AbXCOQAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422917AbXCOQAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:00:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:57807 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422919AbXCOQAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:00:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Martin Bligh cc: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , Glauber de Oliveira Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 In-Reply-To: <45F96B57.10206@mbligh.org> Message-ID: References: <20070314050819.536207642@goodmis.org> <20070314125330.GA13168@elte.hu> <45F96B57.10206@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: > > Can't we move the shared files into a new shared arch/ subdirectory > (ia32_64 or whatever), and have them included from both places? That's *exactly* what the patches do (except it's called "arch/x86", which is clearly the best option - please don't use "ia" _anywhere_ except for "ia64", since that's the only architecture that is really "intel architecture"). > On the downside, it's more ../../.. type stuff. On the upside, > they're more cleanly separated and it's apparent what's going on. > Seems nicer to me than drivers/ and kernel/ for stuff that's > really arch specific, but shared between two arches. Absolutely. I'm agreeing violently. I just suspect not a lot of people really looked at the patches.. Linus