Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:59:55 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 |
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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..
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