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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] arch/x86_common: more formal reuse of i386+x86_64 source code
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:59:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602091059.40319.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208225336.23539710.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

On Thursday 09 February 2006 07:53, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> (not completed yet)
> (patch applies to 2.6.16-rc2)
> 
> Patch is 331 KB and is at
>   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/x86-common1.patch
> 
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> 
> Move lots of i386 & x86_64 common code into arch/x86_common/
> and modify Makefiles to use it from there.

No. That patch doesn't buy us anything and makes it hell
to forward/backward port patches.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-09 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-09  6:53 [PATCH/RFC] arch/x86_common: more formal reuse of i386+x86_64 source code Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-09  7:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-09  9:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-14 19:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-22 20:53 ` Tom Rini
2006-02-22 20:55   ` Randy.Dunlap

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