From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
v4l-dvb maintainer list <v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org>,
Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Move drivers/usb/media to drivers/media/video
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:46:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060324204624.GA2928@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143231086.4961.24.camel@praia>
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:11:26PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Because of historic reasons, there are two separate directories with
> V4L stuff. Most drivers are located at driver/media/video. However, some
> code for USB Webcams were inserted under drivers/usb/media.
>
> This makes difficult for module authors to know were things should be.
> Also, makes Kconfig menu confusing for normal users.
>
> This patch moves all V4L content under drivers/usb/media to
> drivers/media/video, and fixes Kconfig/Makefile entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It's probably best to do this as a git patch and send it to Linus that
way, so he can just pull it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-24 20:11 [RFC] [PATCH] Move drivers/usb/media to drivers/media/video Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-03-24 20:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-03-25 13:07 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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