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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/*

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On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:39:18PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> We have growing number of mach-* directories in arch/arm, and I guess
> it might be a good time to discuss moving them into a sub-directory.

What does it buy us?  Let me summarise the actual change:

- Move up to 71 arch/arm/mach-* directories to arch/arm/platforms/*,
  which just means another level of directory structure.  We still
  end up with up to 71 directories in arch/arm/platforms/

- The ability to use obj-y rather than machine-y, where both already
  work in the same way.

Is there anything I missed?

If that is all, then I really do not like this change - it's seems
to be churn for no benefit, and that's something we really should be
minimising.  Linus Torvalds has historically moaned at the ARM
architecture for stuff like this.

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[RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-03 16:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 9/9] ARM: bcm: move mach-bcm/ to platforms/bcm/ Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-03 16:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/9] ARM: uniphier: move mach-uniphier/ to platforms/uniphier/ Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-03 16:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 3/9] ARM: zynq: move mach-zynq/ to platforms/zynq/ Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-03 16:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 1/9] ARM: prepare arch/arm/platforms for immigration Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-03 16:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to  arch/arm/platforms/* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-04-03 20:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 04:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-04-04 04:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] ARM: start to move arch/arm/mach-* to arch/arm/platforms/* Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> - 2016-04-04 21:10 +0200

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