Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758559Ab3J2Rjr (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:39:47 -0400 Received: from mail-qe0-f43.google.com ([209.85.128.43]:40546 "EHLO mail-qe0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758510Ab3J2Rjp (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:39:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [2620:0:1000:1b02:6e3b:e5ff:fe16:f1aa] In-Reply-To: <20131029170817.GA13047@fifo99.com> References: <1382993006-27359-1-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <1382993006-27359-3-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <20131029132043.GA28165@fifo99.com> <20131029170817.GA13047@fifo99.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:39:45 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support From: Olof Johansson To: Daniel Walker Cc: David Brown , Bryan Huntsman , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Kevin Hilman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 19 On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > Personally I think splitting mach- stuff isn't very useful or > interesting.. There's just no technical reason for it, for example x86 > and x86_64 was a win from my perspective , there's a lot more reason to > keep similar things together than to split things up. There are definitely valid technical reasons for it; the old and new platforms share no code, and the legacy platforms are unlikely to be updated to modern infrastructure anytime soon. Other platforms are managed in similar manners, such as OMAP, imx/mxs, etc. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/