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Subject: Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel
From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
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On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 13:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> In article <3C39E6A0.34A88990@alsa-project.org> you wrote:
> > If you want to keep top level cleaner and avoid proliferation of entries
> > we might have:
> >
> > subsys/sound
> > subsys/sound/drivers
> > subsys/net
> > subsys/net/drivers
> 
> And what part of the kernel is no subsystem?
> Your subsystem directory is superflous.

Change subsys/ to some name that means "not device-specific".  
The point is that the net and sound system-level stuff isn't 
composed of device-specific drivers and the other directories 
below linux/ do not have a bunch of device-specific drivers 
associated with them (kernel, fs and mm).

> If, for some reason, we want to move all code in the kernel around
> we should do it once and in a planned manner.

Maybe a better structure is needed, but moving /net alone 
would be a big project.

	Miles

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