Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc

From: David Gibson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:47:07 +1000

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:32:43 -0500
> > Kumar Gala <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>Do we want to go and move stuff back out of arch/powerpc/kernel back  
> >>into arch/ppc/kernel?  or just include files?
> > 
> > 
> > What would be the point of doing that?  I would think we want the
> > opposite, in that we want to reuse as much of arch/powerpc during
> > arch/ppc compiles as possible.  Sort of shows how much is "left" to
> > port.
> 
> The point would be to keep the two trees separate, so that one
> doesn't need to worry about breaking arch/ppc when making a change
> to arch/powerpc.

Exactly so.  Having to be careful about not breaking arch/ppc when
doing cleanups for arch/powerpc is a pain in the bum.

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