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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
	dhecht@vmware.com, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix topology.c location
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:09:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060225100954.92fe9425.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440093C6.4000904@vmware.com>

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:28:38 -0800 Zachary Amsden wrote:

> Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> >This change breaks x86-64 compiles, as it uses the same file.
> >  
> >
> 
> Thanks for fixing that.  Have we decided that file sharing of this sort 
> is a really bad idea yet?  I still see early_printk and  pci-direct.h 
> sharing remains.  If this sharing really must go on, isn't there a less 
> ad-hoc way to do it?  Or at least a mention in the file that "before you 
> modify, note this is shared by arch foo".

I guess a note would be OK, but there are notes already in Makefile*.
oh, or in some .c file if it does #include another.c
or #include ../../arch/other/blah

For i386 and x86_64, currently almost any file could be shared, except for
the cpu-specific ones.

One hurdle to get over seems to be what would Andi accept.

---
~Randy

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-25 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200602242305.k1ON5Tmb026520@hera.kernel.org>
2006-02-25  8:55 ` [PATCH] Fix topology.c location Dave Jones
2006-02-25 17:28   ` Zachary Amsden
2006-02-25 18:09     ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]

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