From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving files around in drivers/net Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:35:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20110615203516.GM21309@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> References: <1306956602.32125.28.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1306957998.3076.18.camel@jtkirshe-MOBL1> <1306958478.32125.32.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Joe Perches , netdev , David Miller , Paul Gortmaker , Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Kirsher Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62045 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751578Ab1FOUfY (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:35:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:38:43AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 13:01, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:53 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > >> > Does anyone still think moving files around in drivers/net > >> > would be sensible and a suitable candidate for inclusion > >> > in 3.1? > >> > Here's what Jeffrey proposed: > >> > http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/netconf-jtk.pdf > >> > Here's what I proposed before that. > >> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg149717.html > >> I am over 90% done with the work and have been trying to finish up the > >> patches so that I could get them out as an RFC here in the next week. > > > > Excellent, thanks. > > > > I thought for sure I would have finished what I have left by last > weekend, but I keep getting interrupted. (Blame it on the NHL stanley > cup playoffs) :) > > I have created a git tree on kernel.org with all the work that I have > completed so far (see below). This first stage of the move is only > taking care of the drivers. The next stage will move the networking > core drivers (bridging, bonding, vlan, etc.) into drivers/net/sw. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-organize > > I will send out all the patches as an RFC by the end of the week (for sure). > My only complaint about this is that as expected we lose any history that used to be there with the 'git log' command. Of course 'git log --follow' still works on individual files, but we lose the ability to look at entire directories.