From: dwalker@fifo99•com (Daniel Walker)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:43:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131031194346.GC31722@fifo99.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131031192330.GG16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:23:30PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:35:06AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > ARM and the sub-architectures is already confusing I don't think we need
> > to start compounding the problem by allowing random whatever-you-want
> > sub-directories from every sub-architecture.
>
> Confusing?
>
> I'm not sure about that. It's actually really simple from my perspective:
>
> arch/arm - the ARM 32-bit architecture
>
> arch/arm/mach-* - support for a single SoC or a group of similar SoCs
>
> arch/arm/plat-* - common support for a set of dissimilar SoCs which want
> to share code between themselves
>
> How is that confusing?
>
It's the relationship between the arch/arm/mach-* and the
arch/arm/plat-* and which ones connect with each other etc, and how the
connection was actually done..
For me as a developer I found it confusing vs something that was fully integrated.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-31 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 20:43 [PATCH 0/4] Remove older ARM msm SoC support David Brown
2013-10-28 20:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: msm: Remove unused board files David Brown
2013-10-28 20:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support David Brown
2013-10-29 13:21 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-29 15:37 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-29 17:08 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-29 17:39 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-29 18:40 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-10-29 19:03 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-30 23:08 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-10-30 23:25 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 0:36 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-31 2:45 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 5:19 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-31 12:07 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 15:53 ` Olof Johansson
2013-10-31 16:33 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 17:12 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-10-31 17:35 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 18:51 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-10-31 19:39 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-31 19:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-31 19:43 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2013-10-28 20:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x30 support David Brown
2013-10-29 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x30 supporty Daniel Walker
2013-10-30 13:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-10-28 20:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: msm: Remove 8x50 support David Brown
2013-10-29 21:19 ` Daniel Walker
2013-10-30 13:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-10-30 15:50 ` Daniel Walker
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