On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:12:54PM -0700, Mark Post wrote:
> >>> On 2/13/2014 at 02:05 PM, Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> 
> >>> wrote:
> > Giving maintainership of the 31 bit code to somebody else wouldn't help
> > us at all. We would still need to take care of the old code if we would
> > change anything else in order to not break 31 bit.
> > In addition it would make our life even more complicated due to merge
> > conflicts etc.
>
> Sounds like what happens with every other architecture in Linux to me.
> I'm pretty sure that's part of what Linus et. al. deal with every day,
> all day long.  I think you're making my case for me.

Sure, and that would be additional work from where we are now.
Exactly the opposite of what I try to reach with the whole exercise ;)
If there is hugh demand for keeping the 31 bit kernel then that is
also fine.

However splitting the architecture (source files) is not the way we
should go.

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