--On January 20, 2006 11:17:57 PM +0000 Russell King
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:56:12PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
A decent amount of ARM stuff moving around between even just 2.6.11
and 2.6.13 (admittedly that's a gripe for ARM) making development for
that port very painful
What you're complaining about here seems to be:
1. the cleanup of the entry and debug code - TRIVIAL - it's a
cut-n-paste job. No interface change. Estimated time to
resolve: 5 minutes
2. moving the machine specific boot makefile parameters into
arch/arm/mach-* - TRIVIAL - it's a cut-n-paste job. No interface
change. Estimated time to resolve: 5 minutes.
3. removing messy macros for the machine description. Slightly less
trivial because you need to do some investigation and then an
exercise of about 10 subsitutions in one file. Estimated time
to resolve: 30 minutes.
All changes listed above to lower the long term maintainence burden of
the kernel _and_ make it easier to port to new SoCs.
Ok, so, let's be generous - call it one hour. Are you _really_ griping
about one hour's work on your part being "very painful"?
As long as it isn't wash rinse repeat, but in development kernels it tends
to be. That's the pain point. It's not one single huge problem, it's the
constant stream of little ones that we try to avoid.
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