On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:02:13PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:57:04 +0100 > > > > > Sparc32 on the other hand had a clean IRQ layer long before x86 found its > > > desire for a clean genirq layer - so genirq is a nuisance for Sparc32 at > > > best and it deserves none of the not nice actions. What i am hoping for is > > > that perhaps the Sparc unification changed that equation. > > > > Not really, the unificiation didn't change much in this area. [...] > > Yeah, i mean - "changed the equation" psychologically, the same way it did > it on x86. > > There's now two files close to each other in the namespace: > > earth4:~/tip> ls -l arch/sparc/kernel/irq*.c > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 16122 2009-01-07 13:50 arch/sparc/kernel/irq_32.c > -rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 26556 2009-01-07 12:34 arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c > > Each of them crying out loud to be unified. Every time you open irq_64.c > you'll think "why that ugly _64.c postfix, shouldnt this be irq.c > instead?" ;-) > > That kind of gentle pressure to unify comes straight from the fact that > there's _32.c and _64.c postfixes around and the postfixes mess up command > completion when those files are opened, so we notice the non-unified-ness > again and again. I most remind you how you eat an elephant ;-) You eat it bite by bite. And you start with the easy bits first to harden your stommach. Try to do a: git shortlog --since=2-months arch/sparc/ I for one is very happy with what we have achieved so far. irq_* unification will come when we reach that part. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
