[PATCH 0/3 v2] Remove need for include/asm-ppc

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:05:58 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, David Gibson wrote:
> > 
> > > > > 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.
> 
> How about splitting the files on a per-case bases then? There are at least
> 95 files that would need to be duplicated (again) to make ppc independent
> from powerpc, and most of these files are about userland interfaces where
> duplication makes no sense at all.

Sure.  I said that in my previous reply too.

> Some files in there (irq.h, ipic.h, dcr.h, i8259.h) already have large
> parts hidden in #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE, so I guess for those it may
> actually be interesting to split them in two again.

Yeah, for those it might.

josh