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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 04:35:26 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: add arch/riscv/Kbuild
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 06:26:58PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Use the standard obj-y form to specify the sub-directories under
> arch/riscv/. No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Do you have a document what the grand scheme here is?  Less of the magic
in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile sounds like a good idea, but unless we have
a very specific split between the kbuild makefile and various override
I fear just splitting things up into two files doesn't really help much.