On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > (more folks Cc:-ed) > > * Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> I've decided to start with merge of mpparse files, and I'd like to > >>> know your opinion on some differences... Ingo, I know you work on > >>> merging the 32/64 files, do I step on your toes? > >> > >> My suggestion would be to do a redesign first and then do that for > >> both. > > I was thinking that redesign on one file would go easier... And we > > don't need both, do we? > > we dont, but please do _not_ "redesign" anything during unification. > > try to keep it simple and bisectable. Lots of small patches. Stupid > #ifdefs if need to be. Pick the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version of > any approach, if it's obvious that the unified version will still work > fine. Ask if in doubt. I agree with Ingo on the "keep it simple" merge steps.. I can't resist mentioning, however, what I'd like to see long term. I'd like to see mpparse.o depend on CONFIG_MPS=y I'd like to be able to build CONFIG_ACPI=y and CONFIG_MPS=n Andy Grover prototyped splititing MPS from ACPI a while back, but it never made it upstream. thanks, -Len -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
