Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:52:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:52:13 -0400 Received: from smtp1.cern.ch ([137.138.128.38]:21004 "EHLO smtp1.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:51:59 -0400 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Architecture-specific include files In-Reply-To: <20010422210118.Z18464@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 26 Apr 2001 03:51:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: Matthew Wilcox's message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:01:18 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox writes: Matthew> Something which came up in one of the hallway discussions at Matthew> the kernelsummit was that a lot of the architecture Matthew> maintainers would find it more convenient if the Matthew> arch-specific header files were moved from include/asm-$ARCH Matthew> to arch/$ARCH/include. Since we use a symlink _anyway_, no Matthew> global changes to include statements are necessary, we'd Matthew> merely need to change Makefile from [snip] Matthew> Would anyone have a problem with this change? It'll make for Matthew> a hell of a big patch from Linus, but it really will simplify Matthew> the lives of the architecture maintainers. I don't see what it saves, except for the fact you just have to run diff -urN once instead of twice when you want to send Linus a large diff. Or am I missing something? Jes - 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/