On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:47:30PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:47:07 +1000
> David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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 PROTECTED]> 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.
>
> How many times has that happened recently? If it's fairly infrequent,
It's infrequent because I've shyed away from cleaning up shared files,
precisely because I'm afraid of breaking arch/ppc.
> then just do the split when you're doing the arch/powerpc cleanup. I'm
> still not convinced that doing a wholesale split again is worth the
> effort.
>
> But then again, I'm not opposed either. Particularly if someone else
> is doing the work :). It simply doesn't make tons of sense to my
> feeble little brain. Seems like that time could be spent better
> elsewhere.
>
> josh
>
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