Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:47:24 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Architecture-specific include files |
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Hi!
> Matthew> Something which came up in one of the hallway discussions at > Matthew> the kernelsummit was that a lot of the architecture > Matthew> maintainers would find it more convenient if the > Matthew> arch-specific header files were moved from include/asm- > Matthew> to arch//include. Since we use a symlink _anyway_, no > Matthew> global changes to include statements are necessary, we'd > Matthew> merely need to change Makefile from > > [snip] > > Matthew> Would anyone have a problem with this change? It'll make for > Matthew> a hell of a big patch from Linus, but it really will simplify > Matthew> the lives of the architecture maintainers. > > I don't see what it saves, except for the fact you just have to run > diff -urN once instead of twice when you want to send Linus a large > diff. Or am I missing something?
Saving one diff urN is nice, plus you can distribute your architecture as tar file more easily, plus it is easier to put just your arch in cvs.
I like it. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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