Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Start header file merger (Was: Re: Beginning Merger Patch)

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:08:20 +1000

And for the faint of heart there's a patch at:

http://michael.ellerman.id.au/files/misc/header-merge.patch

cheers

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:47, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:10:56 -0400 Dan Malek <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On Aug 2, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > > ..... A stub is left
> > > in asm-ppc and asm-ppc64 pointing to the unified files.
> >
> > Why bother?  You may as well change all of the source
> > files, too, or else that will never get done :-)
>
> You actually don't need to modify (m)any source files.
>
> Here is an alternative approach.  These patches depend on Olaf's
> boot code cleanup for ppc64 (or similar).  Do the following:
>
> cd linux/include
> mkdir asm-powerpc
> cd asm-ppc
> for i in *
> do
> 	[ -e ../asm-ppc64/$i ] || mv $i ../asm-powerpc/$i
> done
> cd ../asm-ppc64
> for i in *
> do
> 	[ -e ../asm-ppc/$i ] || mv $i ../asm-powerpc/$i
> done
> for i in *
> do
> 	[ -f ../asm-ppc64/$i ] && cmp -s $i ../asm-ppc64/$i &&
> 		mv $i ../asm-powerpc/$i && rm ../asm-ppc64/$i
> done
>
> Then apply the patch below and the patch in the following email.
>
> I have built this kernel for ppc (defconfig), ppc64 (iSeries, pSeries and
> pmac).

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