On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:17:56PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hi guys, > > so I've had my eyes on this for a long time now and it has managed to > get on my nerves just enough to do something about it :-) > > So how about moving perf stuff to arch/x86/perf/ and get rid of the > prefixes in the filenames. This also flattens our folder structure which > is a good thing and which we've been talking about in the past. > > In order to diminish churn, I can do the whole thing in 4-5 patches' > sets, after having run enough *config smoke tests and 0day bot too. > Anyway, something like that. > > perf_event_<vendor>_<type>.c > > can then move to arch/x86/perf/<vendor>/type.c > > and have much saner structure. > > Thoughts?
I _will_ blame you for at least a month after every time I mistype a pathname because of this ;-) git blame --follow must keep working. That is, git had better be able to understand this code movement, loosing history is just a total PITA. Also, a script that can auto-convert patches would be nice. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
