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Message-Id: <200805061102.22528.arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:02:20 +0200
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc: "John Williams" <john.williams@...alogix.com>, monstr@...nam.cz,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com, John.Linn@...inx.com,
matthew@....cx, will.newton@...il.com, drepper@...hat.com,
microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
"Michal Simek" <monstr@...str.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/56] microblaze_v2: headers simple files - empty or redirect to asm-generic
On Monday 05 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote:
> > These are all just includes of asm-generic/* (hooray!).
> >
> > But, is it reasonable to to suggest adding asm-generic at the end of the
> > kernel include path, and save all this verbosity?
> >
> > Principle of least surprise maybe?
>
> Convention in the other archs is already established to explicitly
> include asm-generic files one by one. It is probably best to match
> existing convention for commonality sake.
Right, I agree. We may eventually want to move to something more sophisticated,
but we should not change the current way of doing this while we're in the process
of adding a new architecture.
Arnd <><
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