Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751607Ab3J2TEN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:04:13 -0400 Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:38062 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876Ab3J2TEL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:04:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:03:58 -0700 From: Daniel Walker To: Olof Johansson 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" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support Message-ID: <20131029190358.GB13047@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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 23 On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:39:45AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > 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. Are you speaking from a meta perspective , or you have specific example in msm code ? Daniel -- 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/