Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?

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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...>, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <alsa-devel@...>, <perex@...>
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 11:04 am

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

I'd personally *much* rather have just one subdirectory.

I realize that block/ and drivers/block/ (and net/ vs drivers/net/) has 
come up several times as an example that isn't that way, BUT:

 - that's actually the odd man out. It's more common to do it the other 
   way (and examples have already been given: drivers/usb/core, just plain 
   drivers/base, drivers/scsi/ (where it's all mixed up and a lot of 
   low-level drivers are in subdirectories of their own), etc etc.

 - perhaps more importantly, it's totally different from 'sound' in that 
   the block/ and drivers/block/ maintainership is actually *separate*.

   The same is actually true of net/ and drivers/net/ too. It so happens 
   that within the last few months, drivers/net/ gets merged through the 
   same maintainer as net/, but they really end up being maintained 
   separately other than that.

So the block/ and net/ layers have very much a higher level of separation 
from their drivers. sound has always been very much _maintained_ as a 
block, even if it then internally may be separate pieces. Partly this is 
from historical reasons, I'm sure, but it's true none-the-less.

So from an outside view, having a single subdirectory makes sense, because 
that's how it has always been maintained.

So I'd personally much rather see just one drivers/sound/ than have this 
split up.

		Linus
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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)