Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754816AbXJXQMw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752929AbXJXQMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:12:45 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:58622 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752711AbXJXQMo (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:12:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:12:40 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Sam Ravnborg , Christoph Hellwig , LKML , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC/git patch] move samples/ to Documentation/markers/ Message-Id: <20071024091240.7978c2da.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <471F4649.3000000@garzik.org> References: <20071024095226.GA30326@havoc.gtf.org> <20071024130557.GA18610@Krystal> <471F4649.3000000@garzik.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 34 On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:05 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Honestly, I don't care at all about building the code. If that's what > you want, great. Yes, that is wanted. They bitrot too easily -- not good. > My objection is more to adding a samples/ directory, which is contra to > past experience: > > A new net driver sample should go in drivers/net/ like the existing > skeleton files I already listed, not samples/net/. A top-level Can't disagree with that. > "samples/" seems like it exists only duplicate the rest of the tree > hierarchy. It seems odd to be building code in Documentation/, but I can live with that. It was primarily Christoph who was opposed to that. He suggested samples/ and I went along with it just to break the impasse (since no one else was making any comments on it at that time). Sam, would building code in Documentation/ cause problems for kbuild? --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/