Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel

[Abramo Bagnara <abramo@alsa-project.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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).

IMO the latter makes much more sense (also for "net" case), but I doubt
you're willing to change current schema.

If you want to keep top level cleaner and avoid proliferation of entries
we might have:

subsys/sound
subsys/sound/drivers
subsys/net
subsys/net/drivers

and so on.

Clean and without ambiguities about stuff location. Unfortunately it's a
*big* change.

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