Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:51:17 +0100 (BST) |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > The last should probably be arch/<xxx>/drivers, but the other ones are > either sensible (tons of bus-independent drivers) or conceptual UNIX > things (char vs block).
This is where I start rolling around all over the floor laughing at various people...
Under pressure from others, I moved all the drivers I used to have in arch/arm/drivers in the 2.0 trees into the generic drivers/* directories. It now seems that these "others" were wrong for the ARM specific drivers.
I do now agree that all drivers should be placed in the drivers subdirectory, and not anywhere under arch/*/drivers since, when some people go around checking net device drivers, they ONLY look in drivers/net, and nowhere else.
I'm even considering moving drivers/acorn/net to drivers/net/acorn (and similarly for the others) so that when changes do occur, these drivers also get a look in.
However, having said that, I think drivers/media is a good idea, but do we have enough drivers or separation to warrant drivers/media/radio and drivers/media/video? I'm willing to pick this change up btw, if no one objects. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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