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Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?

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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <alsa-devel@...>, <perex@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 5:20 pm

While we are at the issue ALSA HG <-> GIT transition...

One thing that annoys me sometimes is that the sound driver codes are
on a different subdirectory than other normal drivers, namely under
/sound.   I don't remember exactly why it came there, but this often
makes people forget to change the necessary code for the sound
subsystem, or slip from the statistics (I'm not sure whether Linus
counted sound/* with recent his posts).

If I understand correctly, with git, we can move the files in
relatively little costs.  So, what about moving sound/* back to
drivers/sound/* or drivers/media/sound/*?

Of course, the primary question is whether it's really worth.
The obvious drawback is that patches won't be applicable after the
move.  So, if we do it, doing at the last seems practical.  But, this
can be a bit problem with keeping such a change on linux-next until
the next merge...

And, another question is to where.  drivers/sound or
drivers/media/sound, or whatever.


Any comments appreciated.

thanks,

Takashi
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Messages in current thread:
Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Takashi Iwai, (Wed May 21, 5:20 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Jeff Garzik, (Wed May 21, 7:37 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Wed May 21, 7:53 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Takashi Iwai, (Thu May 22, 4:27 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Adrian Bunk, (Thu May 22, 10:22 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Thu May 22, 5:57 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu May 22, 4:55 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 22, 11:04 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Thu May 22, 12:40 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu May 22, 11:50 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Jaroslav Kysela, (Thu May 22, 2:26 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Thu May 22, 4:11 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Sam Ravnborg, (Thu May 22, 3:12 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Jaroslav Kysela, (Thu May 22, 3:20 am)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Adrian Bunk, (Wed May 21, 6:23 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Takashi Iwai, (Thu May 22, 4:22 am)
Re: [alsa-devel] Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Timur Tabi, (Wed May 21, 6:05 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Linus Torvalds, (Wed May 21, 5:44 pm)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, David Miller, (Wed May 21, 9:25 pm)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, David Miller, (Wed May 21, 9:23 pm)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, Andreas Schwab, (Thu May 22, 4:09 am)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, David Miller, (Thu May 22, 12:12 pm)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, Andreas Schwab, (Thu May 22, 12:32 pm)
Re: Moving include/asm-*, David Miller, (Thu May 22, 1:43 pm)
Re: [alsa-devel] Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Wed May 21, 5:58 pm)
Re: [alsa-devel] Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Rene Herman, (Wed May 21, 6:08 pm)
Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?, Sam Ravnborg, (Wed May 21, 5:54 pm)
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