Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:16:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: merge of m68knommu and m68k arch branches? |
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Greg,
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Greg Ungerer wrote: > On 22/02/11 07:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > > Inside of the new arch/m68k is a little messy in the kernel and mm > > > directories. There is plenty of scope for cleanup and merge on the > > > files in here - but I want to leave that for follow up patches after > > > this initial directory merge. As a data point, when we merged the > > > m68k and m68knommu include files we had something like 70 or 80 > > > duplicate but separate files, after some cleanups that is now down to > > > 10. Ongoing cleanup will merge some of these remaining ones as well. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Hmm, how are you going to deal with the fact, that m68knommu uses > > genirq, m68k not? I guess there are some more points like this > > (clockevents, clocksource ...) > > Initially it has no impact. This first step pretty much just > combines the 2 directories, it doesn't attempt to do a fine > grained merge of each file. (It does factor out identical > files - quite a few in arch/m68k/lib for example).
Ah, ok. So you doing it similar to the plain move approach which we did with x86 back then.
> > Is there a plan to move m68k to the generic facilities as well ? > > I'll look at doing what I can as I work through merging all the > underlying pieces :-)
Fair enough.
Thanks,
tglx
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