Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753322AbXJ3Av2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752458AbXJ3AvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:51:20 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34649 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752255AbXJ3AvT (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:51:19 -0400 Message-ID: <47268000.4000808@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:51:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Jens Axboe , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Philippe Elie , Linus Torvalds , "William L. Irwin" , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository) References: <20071029215138.GA4233@Krystal> <20071029234012.GB19413@Krystal> In-Reply-To: <20071029234012.GB19413@Krystal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 23 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Putting stuff in instrumentation/ by no way means that it becomes > optional for a subsystem, but merely that it could either export > information useful for kernel instrumentation or have some > infrastructure parts merged with others. More reason why you should not be moving stuff all around the tree... Really, file structure is one of the LEAST important issues around -- while moving files around introduces a non-zero amount of pain. New files -- like that godawful and nearly empty samples/ directory -- sure, fix that up before release. But let's not break diffs of existing architectures without good reason. Jeff - 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/