linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support

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Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:43:46 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:23:30PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:35:06AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > ARM and the sub-architectures is already confusing I don't think we need
> > to start compounding the problem by allowing random whatever-you-want
> > sub-directories from every sub-architecture.
> 
> Confusing?
> 
> I'm not sure about that.  It's actually really simple from my perspective:
> 
> arch/arm - the ARM 32-bit architecture
> 
> arch/arm/mach-* - support for a single SoC or a group of similar SoCs
> 
> arch/arm/plat-* - common support for a set of dissimilar SoCs which want
> 	to share code between themselves
> 
> How is that confusing?
> 

It's the relationship between the arch/arm/mach-* and the
arch/arm/plat-* and which ones connect with each other etc, and how the
connection was actually done..

For me as a developer I found it confusing vs something that was fully integrated.

Daniel

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