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

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Will that cause people to compile test both? I have my doubts that 
> will really work.

If people don't compile-test both now, then why would they compile-test 
things when merged?

So no, that's not the point.

But at least things like "grep" will work sanely, and people will be 
*aware* that "Oh, this touches a file that may be used by the other 
word-size".

Right now, we have people changing "i386-only" files that turn out to be 
used by x86-64 too - through very subtle Makefile things that the person 
who only looks into the i386 Makefile will never even *see*.

THAT is the problem (well, at least part of it).

		Linus
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