linux-kernel - Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807291502271.3334@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1



On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> For arm the actual diff is:
>  Makefile                 |   20 +++++++-------------
>  boot/compressed/Makefile |    3 ---
>  tools/Makefile           |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> But on top of this there are ~600 files that needed a
> replacement of:
> #include <asm/arch/foo.h>
> to
> #include <arch/foo.h>

Yeah, that latter part doesn't strike me as wonderful.

> So maybe not such a minimal patch - because I wanted to drop all
> the symlink stuff.

Why? There's nothing wrong with symlinks.

The problem with 'include/asm' isn't the symlink per se, it's that it 
split up the architecture parts in two separate areas - arch and include.

			Linus
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