[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] Clean up top-level directory structure

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Jul 11 04:42:06 CEST 2009


On Friday 10 July 2009 21:20:45 Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> Peter Tyser wrote:
> >> Before verifying MIPS builds, I'd like to make sure that why you take
> >> lib/$(ARCH)/ alternative, not $(ARCH)/lib/.  If there were any
> >> discussion on #IRC, is there any chance we could share the summary or
> >> decision to follow?
> >
> > There was no discussion, /lib/$(ARCH) just made more sense to me and it
> > was functionally a direct translation from lib_$(ARCH) to lib/$(ARCH).
> >
> > Using $(ARCH)/lib wouldn't clean up the top-level directory structure
> > much and would open a can of worms that I'm not prepared to deal with at
> > this time.  For example, if there was an architecture specific
>
> Oops, I wanted to say "arch/$(ARCH)/lib/", not $(ARCH)/lib/, sorry.

i thought that originally, but i dont care much either way.  having 
arch/$(ARCH)/ would line up with u-boot-v2 and the linux kernel though.

i dont understand needing a lib/ subdir under arch/$(ARCH)/ though.

> > While we're talking about it, I'd always thought it would be nice to
> > split out all the cmd_* files from common/ into their own command/
> > directory similar to u-boot-v2.
>
> Ack.  The directory structure in u-boot-v2 looks nice, at least, to me,
> anyway.

makes sense to me too
-mike
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