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

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

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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