Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:47921 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752759AbYJ3RbI (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:31:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:29:20 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Larry Finger Cc: wireless , Hin-Tak Leung , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: Re: Guidelines regarding separate directory Message-ID: <20081030172919.GA4330@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20081030_183121_444381_FEB291D5) References: <4909EA78.3060700@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4909EA78.3060700@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:10:16AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > I am planning on adding code to control the LEDs on the RTL8187 devices based on > the latest vendor driver. From the expected size of the code, I think that > separate files will be best. > > What number of files in a driver make it advisable to create a separate > directory? Between the rtl8180 and rtl8187 drivers, there are now 15 files and I > will be adding at least 2 more. Is this the time to create a rtl818x directory > under drivers/net/wireless? Yes. It should have been done long ago -- I had them all in drivers/net/wireless due to my own misinterpretation of the policy in the past. John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.