Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:00:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel |
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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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