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SubjectRe: merge of m68knommu and m68k arch branches?
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:05, Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> 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).
>
>
>> Is there a plan to move m68k to the generic facilities as well ?

Moving m68k to genirq is (the next thing?) on my list...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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