Re: [RFC] CRIS: Move header files from include to arch/cris

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 22:36, Bryan Wu wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:42, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
>>> That means that the machine dependent header files are moved to
>>> arch/cris/mach-{fs,a3}/include, while the common and architecture
>>> dependent files are moved to arch/cris/include.
>>>
>>> It is mainly this I'd like some input on, since most other ports
>>> that have moved their header files have put all headers in
>>> arch/*/include.
>>
>> that seems like a fairly obvious good idea to me ... i'm thinking we
>> should do it for Blackfin as well ...
>
> For moving machine header files to arch/blackfin/include/asm/mach-bf{527,
> 533, 537, 538, 548, 561},  we need to set a link such as
>  arch/blackfin/include/asm/mach -> arch/blackfin/include/asm/mach-bf527,
> because tons of drivers use the header file <asm/mach/xxxx.h>.

i dont think a ton of drivers use asm/mach/xxx.h considering how few
files we have in there.  a transition would be pretty trivial.

> But we don't like to setup a link that is the one reason we move our header
> file from include/asm-blackfin to our arch/blackfin/include/asm.

$arch/include/asm/ and $arch/asm/ would work the same.  just tweak the
actual -I path.
-mike
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