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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:15:31 -0800
From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. 
>>Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the DRI 
>>tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree).  We plan to move it 
>>"up" to its own module at the top level.  That should make it *much* 
>>easier for people that want to do things with the DRM but don't want all 
>>the rest of X (i.e., DRI w/DirectFB, etc.).
>>
>>When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing the 
>>file structure.  What can we do to make it easier for kernel release 
>>maintainers to merge changes into their trees?
> 
> - Make sure that the files in the main kernel distribution are up to date.
> 
> - Prepare a shell script which does all the relevant file moves, send to
>   Linus, along with a diff which fixes up Kconfig and Makefiles.
> 
> - Start patching the files in their new locations.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean.  Right now the files in our CVS are 
split between two directories.  There's a "common" directory, which is 
used on both Linux & BSD, and a Linux-specific directory.  Our intention 
is to shift around where some of the files are in our CVS.  I don't 
think we intend to move where things are in the Linux source tree.

That's part of why I'm asking.  From talking to Linus in the past, I 
know that merging in changes is a PITA due to our funky directory 
structure.  I'd like to make that easier. :)


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