Re: Guidelines regarding separate directory

[Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:10 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I am planning on adding code to control the LEDs on the RTL8187 devices based on
>> the latest vendor driver. From the expected size of the code, I think that
>> separate files will be best.
>>
>> What number of files in a driver make it advisable to create a separate
>> directory? Between the rtl8180 and rtl8187 drivers, there are now 15 files and I
>> will be adding at least 2 more. Is this the time to create a rtl818x directory
>> under drivers/net/wireless?
> 
> I for one think that should have been done already, makes finding
> drivers easier imho. But I don't think there are strict guidelines in
> any way.

On a similar note, would anyone object to collecting the orinoco files
in a subdirectory? I'm looking at doing some refactoring of orinoco.c
which I think can be split into at least 3 files.


Regards,

Dave.

PS the existing files that would move:
airport.c
hermes.c
hermes.h
hermes_dld.c
hermes_dld.h
hermes_rid.h
orinoco.c
orinoco.h
orinoco_cs.c
orinoco_pci.c
orinoco_pci.h
orinoco_plx.c
orinoco_tmd.c
orinoco_nortel.c
spectrum_cs.c