Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add documentation/arch/00-INDEX

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:40:52 -0500 Rob Landley wrote:

> On 04/27/2011 04:31 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

> Intel doesn't make motherboards either.  (There is an entity ultimately
> responsible for the arm design, the URL was an attempt to indicate that
> entity.)

sure they do.  I've owned several of them:
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/index.htm?iid=gg_prod-en_US+mb


> > Lastly, I'm not entirely convinced about moving this stuff.  I've not
> > seen anything which explains why this is being done or what benefit it
> > is supposedly bringing.
> 
> Does the same logic apply to the "arch" directory in actual source code?
>  All those subdirectories under it _could_ be at the top level.  For
> that matter, "filesystems" could all be at the top level too.  It's
> cluttered, so I'm trying to collate.

I think it's fine so long as we don't go overboard with it (i.e., too much
of it).

> The Documentation directory is a mess right now.  A lot of the
> information it contains is specific to a given hardware platform, which
> probably isn't of interest to people who aren't using that hardware
> platform.  There's plenty of documentation that's _not_ target-specific,
> so collecting together the stuff that IS target-specific seems like an
> obvious cleanup to me.
> 
> Is your objection that Documentation isn't cluttered enough to warrant
> cleanup?  Or that mirroring "arch" a level up is a surprising cleanup to
> make?


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