From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754095AbcDDBzT (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2016 21:55:19 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f53.google.com ([209.85.218.53]:33558 "EHLO mail-oi0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbcDDBzR (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2016 21:55:17 -0400 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1459694367-18635-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* From: Florian Fainelli Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:53:56 -0700 To: Russell King - ARM Linux , Masahiro Yamada CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , Rob Herring , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Emilio_L=F3pez?= , Mark Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Matthias Brugger , Marcus Cooper , Maxime Ripard Message-ID: <58FF13BE-384C-4EF6-9202-E3A57CA7F4FF@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On April 3, 2016 11:25:43 AM PDT, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:39:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> We have growing number of mach-* directories in arch/arm, and I guess >> it might be a good time to discuss moving them into a sub-directory. > >What does it buy us? Let me summarise the actual change: > >- Move up to 71 arch/arm/mach-* directories to arch/arm/platforms/*, > which just means another level of directory structure. We still > end up with up to 71 directories in arch/arm/platforms/ > >- The ability to use obj-y rather than machine-y, where both already > work in the same way. > >Is there anything I missed? > >If that is all, then I really do not like this change - it's seems >to be churn for no benefit, and that's something we really should be >minimising. Linus Torvalds has historically moaned at the ARM >architecture for stuff like this. Agreed, it also makes the life of people back porting, or just submitting changes harder (even though git does an excellent job at tracking renames). Nack from me. -- Florian From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: f.fainelli@gmail.com (Florian Fainelli) Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:53:56 -0700 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* In-Reply-To: <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1459694367-18635-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> <20160403182543.GQ19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <58FF13BE-384C-4EF6-9202-E3A57CA7F4FF@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On April 3, 2016 11:25:43 AM PDT, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:39:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> We have growing number of mach-* directories in arch/arm, and I guess >> it might be a good time to discuss moving them into a sub-directory. > >What does it buy us? Let me summarise the actual change: > >- Move up to 71 arch/arm/mach-* directories to arch/arm/platforms/*, > which just means another level of directory structure. We still > end up with up to 71 directories in arch/arm/platforms/ > >- The ability to use obj-y rather than machine-y, where both already > work in the same way. > >Is there anything I missed? > >If that is all, then I really do not like this change - it's seems >to be churn for no benefit, and that's something we really should be >minimising. Linus Torvalds has historically moaned at the ARM >architecture for stuff like this. Agreed, it also makes the life of people back porting, or just submitting changes harder (even though git does an excellent job at tracking renames). Nack from me. -- Florian