From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@perex.cz
Subject: Re: Moving sound/* to drivers/ ?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 01:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4834B5E2.3040301@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4834B252.1080700@garzik.org>
On 22-05-08 01:37, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Speaking as a former OSS driver maintainer, I always preferred
> drivers/sound.
>
> Though Rene's suggestion (use both sound/ and drivers/sound/) might make
> sense if the subsystem code is huge -- I supported the drivers/block/ ->
> block/ code movement for example.
Well, not _huge_ but ALSA is very much structured like that; large
middle layer with "miniport" drivers (I do by the way expect this was
also Takashi plan originally due to him using sound/* and not just
"sound/"; that is, I took the * to be shorthand for isa, pci, usb and so on)
From a structural view, the PCM core is just as much not a driver as
the IP protocol isn't one and moving all of sound/ to drivers/ would
trade the current "why are the drivers not under drivers/?" issue for a
"why is all this non-driver code under drivers/?".
This "net model" of sound/ and drivers/sound/ would be cleanest I feel.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 21:20 Moving sound/* to drivers/ ? Takashi Iwai
2008-05-21 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-21 21:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
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 ` [alsa-devel] Moving sound/* to drivers/ ? Timur Tabi
2008-05-21 22:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 8:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-21 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-21 23:53 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-22 6:26 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 7:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-22 7:20 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-05-22 8:11 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 8:27 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-22 8:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-22 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-22 15:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-22 16:40 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 9:57 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 14:22 ` Adrian Bunk
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