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Message-ID: <20071026130125.78ea7017@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:01:25 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill i386 and x86_64 directories

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:23:36 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:53PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from
> > arch/x86/boot/bzImage. Now that the old directories are gone it does
> > not make much sense to keep them alive. Andrew will survive it :)
> 
> It is not just Andrew I'm afraid.
> We got a Debian bug-report too when we did not have the symlink and I
> asume this is true for several others.
> We should let it stay in 2.6.24 and remove the symlink for 2.6.25 IMO.

I would put it on the list and leave it for a couple of years so that
people using old distros have all upgraded at that point. Adrian will
remember to delete it if its on the list to go ....
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