Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:00:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> 
> 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).

One ring^Wlayout to rule them all <stops here ;)> I would not be unhappy if
drivers/net became net/drivers, etc 8)

- Arnaldo