linux-kernel - Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:34:23 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback


>
> 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.

Will that cause people to compile test both? I have my doubts that 
will really work.

e.g. a similar example would be CONFIG_MMU=n. The code 
is mostly shared and in the same directories, but people still
break the MMUless architectures all the time. 

I don't expect this to be different with 32bit/64bit.

-Andi
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