linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/14] KVM: selftests: Rename UNAME_M to ARCH

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:43:13 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@...gle.com>,
        Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] KVM: selftests: Rename UNAME_M to ARCH_DIR, fill
 explicitly for x86

On 2022-12-13 20:03, Sean Christopherson wrote:

> One last thought/question, what do y'all think about renaming 
> directories to
> follow the kernel proper?  I.e. aarch64=>arm64, s390x=>s390, and 
> x86_64=>x86.
> Then $(ARCH_DIR) would go away.  The churn would be unfortunate, but it 
> would be
> nice to align with arch/ and tools/arch/.

aarch64->arm64 makes sense to me. Whether it is worth the churn
is another question. As long as we don't try to backport tests,
the damage should be limited to a single merge window.

           M.
-- 
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