Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:14:22 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:38:10PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>...
> In the end it won't make much difference where the files are located
> (although I frankly don't see the advantage of this intrusive move).
> 
> You always have to at least compile test both if you change one and I doubt 
> most  people will be able to avoid this no matter how the Makefile looks
> or where the files are. 
>...

The important point is:

People do not expect code under arch/i386/ to be used by code under 
arch/x86_64/ and vice versa.

That regularly results in people sending patches that don't compile on 
the other architecture.

With one architecture it's much more obvious that the code is shared.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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