Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:12:03AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: >> Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> No. The idea behind splitting them is to allow current platforms with >> active maintainers to progress without being held back. The older >> platforms can stay and have an opportunity to modernize. >> >> The kernel is a moving target, without some minimal effort to keep >> platforms up to date, the effort to continue to maintain/modernize them >> can become more of a pain than it's worth. If maintainers of these older >> platforms are willing to put in the work, nobody will be SOL. If >> nobody shows interest in modernizing these older platforms (which seems >> to be the case based on the last couple years), then it is reasonable >> IMO for them to fade away slowly. > > > According to a prior email Tony suggested that OMAP was split for purely > technical reasons.. If code is shared in some way , or has synergies, and there's no > technical reason to split a sub-architecture, then to me there's no win in splitting > things.. The wins have already been well described in this thread in terms of maintenance of newer platforms using modern kernel infrastructure. > It's just more directories, more confusion etc.. The confusion > would come from someone wanting to find the code related to a platform, > but woops there's a bunch of directories, or code flow and how the > sub-architecture is strung together .. Personally I found OMAP very > confusing in that regard. > > ARM and the sub-architectures is already confusing I don't think we need > to start compounding the problem by allowing random whatever-you-want > sub-directories from every sub-architecture. Randomness is quite a bit of an exaggeration of what's been proposed here. These decisions are made on a case-by-case basis and is this case is being done for ease of maintainence for newer platforms, which may not be a "technical reason" for you, but is important for overall maintenance of arm-soc. If we do this split, you are more than welcome to demonstrate the commonality by modernizing mach-msm, combining it with mach-qcom, removing mach-msm, and then removing all the "confusion." Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
