Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:57:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [Dri-devel] 2.6 kernel change in nopage |
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Of course there are also advantages to _not_ using the file-per-kernel > version scheme.
No there isn't.
The thing is, you should keep those "file-per-OS" files as small as possible, and only contain the things that are literally different. Because:
> Keeping one set of files means time is not wasted > applying the same change to multiple variations
If the files only contain the actual differences, this just isn't an issue. Those files are per-OS _anyway_, so regardless of how you do it (with #ifdef's inside our outside the code etc), you'd have several versions.
And having separate files means that you don't uglify the code for another OS or another version and hide the _real_ issues.
But yes, it assumes that you can cleanly abstract out the differences.
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