linux-kernel - Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?]

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 09:21:55 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> Me personally, I've been more irritated by include/asm-xyz vs arch/xyz. It 
> would be so nice if all the arch-specific changes woudl always show up 
> under arch/ (both from a statistics standpoint, and just because then a 
> diffstat really shows arch-specific stuff really obviously, and sorts all 
> the arch-specific stuff together).

We could git mv include/asm-xyz arch/xyz/asm and then arrange to pass
-Iarch/$(ARCH) to gcc.  The only downside is that "asm" is a slightly
strange name for a directory of include files, but I assume we don't
want to have to change all the #include <asm/blah.h> lines in all the
*.c files.

Paul.
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