> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:49:08PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> > > Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > > The traditional location of the arch specific Makefiles
> > > > has been at:
> > > >
> > > > include/asm-$ARCH
> > > >
> > > > But as suggested by several people over time and lately
> > > > by Linus in the following post:
> > > >
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/21/1903924
> > > >
> > > > is is suggested to move the arch specific files under arch/
> > > > and for the header files this is arch/$ARCH/include.
> > > >
> > > > So I have hacked up support for this in kbuild so
> > > > for the simpler cases a simple move of header files as
> > > > in:
> > > > git mv include/asm-$ARCH arch/$ARCH/include/asm
> > > >
> > > > is enough.
> > > >
> > > > If Linus will accept it then I think -rc1 is a perfect
> > > > time to do it as people has less stuff pending touching
> > > > the header files that are moved.
> > > > Validation is easy - does the usual configs build?
> > > >
> > > > For the archs that plays games with symlinks this is a
> > > > splendid opportunity to get rid af these.
> > > > The receipe is simple:
> > > > Use KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Iarch/$ARCH/include/$CPU
> > > >
> > > > to select the CPU and then do a copy of the header files
> > > > like this:
> > > >
> > > > git mv include/asm-$ARCH/$CPU arch/$ARCH/include/$CPU/cpu
> > > >
> > > > Then the code can continue to use:
> > > >
> > > > #include <cpu/foo.h>
> > > >
> > > > I already converted sparc to use arch/sparc/include -
> > > > while I merged the header files for sparc and sparc64.
> > > > This change is already upstream.
> > > >
> > > > And for SH I posted a receipe which you can read here:
> > > >
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/83
> > > >
> > > > It is SH specific but anyway pretty generic.
> > > >
> > > > I am limited in time and resources at the moment but I
> > > > would be glad to help out as time permits should there
> > > > be any questions.
> > > I just tried moving the include/asm-m68knommu directory
> > > to arch/m68knommu/include/asm and it all worked fine.
> > > Clean compile first go :-) Nice. (As noted
> > > asm-offsets.h was still generated in incldue/asm-m68knommu
> > > afterwards though).
> > >
> > > So what is the status, should I prepare git/patch
> > > for Linus?
> > Yes please do so.
>
> The move change can be pulled from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu.git for-linus
>
> If there is no complaints I'll send Linus a pull request in a
> couple of days time.
