[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] Clean up top-level directory structure

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Jul 9 21:15:43 CEST 2009


On Thursday 09 July 2009 14:49:07 Peter Tyser wrote:
> > >   Move lib_ppc to lib/ppc
> > >   Move lib_arm to lib/arm
> > >   Move lib_i386 to lib/i386
> > >   Move lib_m68k to lib/m68k
> > >   Move remaining lib_<ARCH> to lib/<ARCH>
> >
> > why is ppc/arm/i386/m68k special ?  seems like it'd make more sense to
> > either have one patch for every arch or squash them altogether.  a squash
> > here sounds ok to me.
>
> I originally didn't squash them all together because of the 100KB
> mailing list limit.  It looked like I'd need to only use 1 line of patch
> context to get the lib_<arch> changes to be < 100KB, so I split them up
> instead.
>
> I originally was going to do each arch independently, but realized there
> was no real significant change for avr32, blackfin, mips, nios, nios2,
> and sparc so I squashed them together.

since it's pretty much all renames, i would have thought git-format-patch with 
the -M option would produce a summary that is under 100kB ?

> Anyway, that's the logic, I can resubmit if necessary.  Or the arch
> changes can be squashed together by whoever pushes the changes to get
> around the mailing list limit.

up to Wolfgang how he wants it
-mike
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