From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Subject: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4835A1FF.3050902@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805220758000.3081@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 22-05-08 17:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> I am in favor of keeping /sound around with the
>> non-hardware-dependent code, much like /block does with regard to
>> /drivers/block.
>
> I'd personally *much* rather have just one subdirectory.
Then I'd agree/suggest ALSA move to drivers/sound. I brought it up but
both Jaroslav and Takashi agree with you. For me it was more a "nicely
reflects the design of things" issue than anything else...
I do agree that the drivers are better of in drivers/ and they are 10
times the size of the sound core.
Rene.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
perex@perex.cz
Subject: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4835A1FF.3050902@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805220758000.3081@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 22-05-08 17:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> I am in favor of keeping /sound around with the
>> non-hardware-dependent code, much like /block does with regard to
>> /drivers/block.
>
> I'd personally *much* rather have just one subdirectory.
Then I'd agree/suggest ALSA move to drivers/sound. I brought it up but
both Jaroslav and Takashi agree with you. For me it was more a "nicely
reflects the design of things" issue than anything else...
I do agree that the drivers are better of in drivers/ and they are 10
times the size of the sound core.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 21:20 Moving sound/* to drivers/ ? Takashi Iwai
2008-05-21 21:20 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-21 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-21 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-21 21:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-21 21:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-21 21:58 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 21:58 ` [alsa-devel] " Rene Herman
2008-05-21 22:08 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 23:21 ` Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?] Paul Mackerras
2008-05-21 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 0:56 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 1:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 1:23 ` Moving include/asm-* David Miller
2008-05-22 8:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-05-22 16:12 ` David Miller
2008-05-22 16:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-05-22 17:43 ` David Miller
2008-05-22 1:23 ` Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?] Harvey Harrison
2008-05-22 1:25 ` Moving include/asm-* David Miller
2008-05-22 1:29 ` Moving include/asm-* [was: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?] Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 1:36 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 4:20 ` Jeff Dike
2008-05-22 5:26 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 16:27 ` Jeff Dike
2008-05-22 17:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-22 1:30 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 22:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-21 22:05 ` Moving sound/* to drivers/ ? Timur Tabi
2008-05-21 22:05 ` [alsa-devel] " Timur Tabi
2008-05-21 22:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 8:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-22 8:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-21 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-21 23:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 23:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 6:26 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 6:26 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 7:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-22 7:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-22 7:20 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 7:20 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 8:11 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 8:11 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 8:27 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-22 8:27 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-22 8:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-22 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 15:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-22 16:40 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-22 16:40 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 9:57 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 9:57 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 14:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 14:22 ` Adrian Bunk
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