On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:45 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 12:08 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:10:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Well. Rather than doing things sequentially we could go parallel. > > > > > Russell could say "I'll look at them before 2.6.28 but please put them > > > > > into linux-next meanwhile". > > > > > > > > There have been some valid but (iirc) non-vocal objections to the > > > > Thumb-2 support from a few people. The biggest one is all the > > > > mess associated with supporting this "unified" assembler stuff. > > > > > > My first implementation of these patches (last year) created a separate > > > arch/ directory and a lot of people objected to this recommending to > > > merge it into the existing arch/arm. Once I posted the re-worked > > > implementation there were no big . > > > > It looks like I didn't finish the above phrase - I meant no big > > objections to the conditional compilation or someone stating clearly > > that this is unacceptable. > > And that's partly what I find rather frustrating. I _know_ that people > have issues with it, but they haven't raised them. It happens that I just returned from vacations so couldn't speak up before now. I do have issues with this new and improved unified assembly crap^H^H^H^Hsyntax. And crappy features makes for crappy patches. With some additional rounds of review and refinements we might possibly make T2 support somewhat tolerable, but I don't think the latest T2 patch series is there yet. I'll provide relevant comments in the existing threads. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
