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DateMon, 7 Jan 2002 10:00:57 -0800 (PST)
FromLinus Torvalds <>
SubjectRe: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Or we could just have a really _deep_ hierarchy, and put everything under
> > "linux/drivers/sound/..", but I'd rather break cleanly with the old.
>
> Christoph has an interesting point. Networking is
>
> 	net/[protocol]/
> 	drivers/net/[driver]
>
> so by that logic we'd have
>
> 	sound/soundcore.c
> 	sound/alsa/alsalibcode
> 	sound/oss/osscore
>
> 	sound/drivers/cardfoo.c
>
> which would also be much cleaner since the supporting crap would be seperate
> from the card drivers

I would certainly not oppose that. Look sane to me, although the question
then ends up being about "drivers/sound" or "sound/drivers" (the latter
has the advantage that it keeps sound together, the former is more
analogous to the "net" situation).

		Linus

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