Messages in this thread | | | From | Timothy Covell <> | Subject | Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:16:36 -0600 |
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On Monday 07 January 2002 15:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In article <3C39E6A0.34A88990@alsa-project.org> you wrote: > > If you want to keep top level cleaner and avoid proliferation of entries > > we might have: > > > > subsys/sound > > subsys/sound/drivers > > subsys/net > > subsys/net/drivers > > And what part of the kernel is no subsystem? > Your subsystem directory is superflous.
Umm, the subsys part makes a lot of sense in terms of logically separating the core of the kernel from the architecture part and the subsystem part. While we need a MM to complete a kernel, we certainly don't need "subsys/sound/alsa/driver/es1371.c".
. ./arch ./fs ./init ./kernel ./lib ./mm ./include ./ipc ./subsys ./scripts ./Documentation
If this helps make the kernel source more like the modules and devfs trees, then it makes even it more logically consistant.
Please remember that everyone who compiles a kernel is not a uber kernel hacker. Average folks will appreciate some more structure which helps to explain how things work.
> > If, for some reason, we want to move all code in the kernel around > we should do it once and in a planned mannor. > > Randomly introducing new and shiny naming schemes sucks. badly.
It's NOT random and it doesn't suck.
> > Christoph
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