Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 01:56:57 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?] |
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:51:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the trivial alternative is to just do > > git mv include/asm-xyz arch/xyz/include
Careful - arch/um/include/ exists, so that'll get interesting.
> But the alternative I'd actually *prefer* would avoid the symlink, and > would be roughly: > > for i in $(arch-list) > do > mkdir arch/$i/include > git mv include/asm-$i arch/$i/asm > > done > git mv include/asm-generic include/asm > > and then remove the symlink to asm entirely, and instead add a > -Iarch/xyz/include, and put that as the *first* entry in the include path.
Eh? git mv include/asm-$i arch/$i/include/asm, then?
> This would mean that: > > - no symlink games > > - if some architecture just uses the generic header file, it doesn't need > to do anything: it just wouldn't implement that header file at all, and > the next entry in the search-path would just find the generic > include/asm entry.
Nice, but... how do you pull what's currently asm-generic/foo.h from what's currently asm-bar/foo.h? #include_next is _ugly_...
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