* Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. sure and agreed. And this absolutely has to happen in a separate patchset. Unification is done best by not changing much and by delaying any difficult change to as late in the unification effort as possible. (thus any non-trivial change, if it breaks things and has to be reverted, wont pull another 100 "easy" changes with itself) Ingo -- 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
