Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:12:40 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/git patch] move samples/ to Documentation/markers/ |
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:05 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Honestly, I don't care at all about building the code. If that's what > you want, great.
Yes, that is wanted. They bitrot too easily -- not good.
> My objection is more to adding a samples/ directory, which is contra to > past experience: > > A new net driver sample should go in drivers/net/ like the existing > skeleton files I already listed, not samples/net/. A top-level
Can't disagree with that.
> "samples/" seems like it exists only duplicate the rest of the tree > hierarchy.
It seems odd to be building code in Documentation/, but I can live with that. It was primarily Christoph who was opposed to that. He suggested samples/ and I went along with it just to break the impasse (since no one else was making any comments on it at that time).
Sam, would building code in Documentation/ cause problems for kbuild?
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