Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:06:56 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:02:39AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > linux/sound is silly. It's drivers so put it under linux/drivers/sound. > > That was my initial reaction too, but Jaroslav clearly wants a > higher-level generic hierarchy. Which means that we're not talking about > _drivers_ any more, we're talking about something that is much more > closely related to a "networking" kind of thing.
If you look at the code it clearly is driver code.
> So we could have a net-based setup, where there would be a totally > separate "linux/sound" and "linux/drivers/sound". Which doesn't seem to > make much sense either.
If really wants that I'd go for this.
> Or we could just have a really _deep_ hierarchy, and put everything under > "linux/drivers/sound/..",
Yes. From a maintaince view that is no different from the same hierarchy under linux/sound, but introducing drivers (_lots_ of drivers) outside linux/drivers is very stupid.
Christoph
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