Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751186AbWATXSH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:18:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbWATXSH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:18:07 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:8200 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbWATXSF (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:18:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:17:57 +0000 From: Russell King To: Michael Loftis Cc: Greg KH , Jan Engelhardt , Marc Koschewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE? Message-ID: <20060120231757.GB20148@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Loftis , Greg KH , Jan Engelhardt , Marc Koschewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060120155919.GA5873@stiffy.osknowledge.org> <5F952B75937998C1721ACBA8@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> <20060120194331.GA8704@kroah.com> <1C4B548965AFD4F5918E838D@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1C4B548965AFD4F5918E838D@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1449 Lines: 33 On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:56:12PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > A decent amount of ARM stuff moving around between even just 2.6.11 > and 2.6.13 (admittedly that's a gripe for ARM) making development for that > port very painful What you're complaining about here seems to be: 1. the cleanup of the entry and debug code - TRIVIAL - it's a cut-n-paste job. No interface change. Estimated time to resolve: 5 minutes 2. moving the machine specific boot makefile parameters into arch/arm/mach-* - TRIVIAL - it's a cut-n-paste job. No interface change. Estimated time to resolve: 5 minutes. 3. removing messy macros for the machine description. Slightly less trivial because you need to do some investigation and then an exercise of about 10 subsitutions in one file. Estimated time to resolve: 30 minutes. All changes listed above to lower the long term maintainence burden of the kernel _and_ make it easier to port to new SoCs. Ok, so, let's be generous - call it one hour. Are you _really_ griping about one hour's work on your part being "very painful"? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/