On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:39:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> We have growing number of mach-* directories in arch/arm, and I guess >> it might be a good time to discuss moving them into a sub-directory. > > What does it buy us? Let me summarise the actual change: > > - Move up to 71 arch/arm/mach-* directories to arch/arm/platforms/*, > which just means another level of directory structure. We still > end up with up to 71 directories in arch/arm/platforms/ > > - The ability to use obj-y rather than machine-y, where both already > work in the same way. > > Is there anything I missed? > > If that is all, then I really do not like this change - it's seems > to be churn for no benefit, and that's something we really should be > minimising. Linus Torvalds has historically moaned at the ARM > architecture for stuff like this.
Been behind on email so chiming in late, but I agree -- this change isn't bringing enough benefit to justify the churn. Overall we're looking at adding as little new code into arch/arm/mach* as possible, so making it easier to structure up and build more elaborate contents in their corner of it seems a bit like a step backwards. -Olof
