Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:10:49 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH take3 00/20] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 3 |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> what do you think about the idea i suggested: to do an x32_/x64_ prefix >>> (or _32/_64 postfix), in a brute-force way, _right away_. I.e. do not >>> have any overlap of having both arch/i386/ and arch/x86_64/ and >>> arch/x86/ - move everything to arch/x86/ right now. > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:06:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> No, no, please don't do that. It would make backporting patches >> for stable kernels a real pain. Moving only the common files >> is the right way to go for a first cut... > > As if the patches come remotely close to applying in the first place. > The filename patched is the least of the worries.
Actually it's surprising how many patches do apply unchanged. A massive file rename, *just for the sake of renaming*, would mean no x86 patches would apply and gain nothing anyway.
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