From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v2 00/71] Organize/Move of the Ethernet drivers in drivers/net/
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:00:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312138840.20837.118.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110731154515.GA3357@p183.telecom.by>
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On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 08:45 -0700, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > drivers/net/{ => ethernet/3com}/3c501.c
>
> I for one appreciate that Linux has short overall directory
> structure. At work we have like 5-6 directories before
> actual code and it sucks very much.
I agree to some degree. I agree that it nice to only have to go 2-3
layers deep to get to code, but it is also not useful to wade through
357 files in a directory.
drivers/net/ is the largest directory under drivers/ and is 2 times
larger than the next largest directory in drivers/. There are 2255
files/directories in /drivers/net/ and majority are Ethernet drivers.
It has gotten to a point where there needed to be an additional level(s)
of organization. So yes, you have to dig a bit deeper (but it is
logical).
drivers/media/ is the next largest at 23 MB with 1526 files.
>
> > have tab-completion actually work
>
> What do you mean?
What I meant was that tab-completion not becoming not useful when you
get >20 results, you usually end up having to type the entire file name
for what you want. It is nice to type 1-2 characters (and then <tab>)
and get back <5 potential or exact results. David actually brought this
up as an advantage to the new directory structure, which I agree with.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 15:45 [RFC net-next v2 00/71] Organize/Move of the Ethernet drivers in drivers/net/ Alexey Dobriyan
2011-07-31 19:00 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2011-08-01 0:42 ` David Miller
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2011-07-31 3:26 Jeff Kirsher
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