Re: [alsa-devel] Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

On 21-05-08 23:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So I would personally certainly not mind somebody doing a 
> 
> 	git mv sound drivers/sound
> 	.. edit makefiles and Kconfig files appropriately ..
> 	git commit -a
> 
> and it wouldn't be a problem for git (ie the repository wouldn't grow or 
> anything like that).

I'd personally like the net/ structure more. So subsystem code under 
sound/ and drivers moved to drivers/sound/.

>> Of course, the primary question is whether it's really worth.
>> The obvious drawback is that patches won't be applicable after the
>> move.
> 
> Well, git merging is actually pretty good at this, so you can apply the 
> patches to the old release and then merge it, and it will do the right 
> thing (perhaps not for newly created files, but that's pretty easy to fix 
> up).

And a few symlinks will do wonders as well. I do/did that when I "port" 
patches developped against mainline to the alsa-kernel HG repo. Not a 
problem that way. Apply and rediff to get the new paths.

> Me personally, I've been more irritated by include/asm-xyz vs arch/xyz. It 
> would be so nice if all the arch-specific changes woudl always show up 
> under arch/ (both from a statistics standpoint, and just because then a 
> diffstat really shows arch-specific stuff really obviously, and sorts all 
> the arch-specific stuff together).

And one would not forget to add the include directory to a "git log" or 
"git bisect" path specification...

Rene.