2.5.44 : move files from drivers/media/* ?

2.5.44 : move files from drivers/media/* ?

[Frank Davis]

Hello all,
  There are video and radio drivers within
drivers/media/video and drivers/media/radio respectively.

Shouldn't those drivers move from drivers/media/video to drivers/video ? 
and same with radio (either a new directory or within an existing 
directory). It just seems that the drivers/media/ directory is unneeded. 
Thoughts?

Regards,
Frank

Re: 2.5.44 : move files from drivers/media/* ?

[linuxguruguy]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:31, grstuhrberg wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 21:45, Frank Davis wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >   There are video and radio drivers within
> > > drivers/media/video and drivers/media/radio respectively.
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't those drivers move from drivers/media/video to drivers/video ? 
> > > and same with radio (either a new directory or within an existing 
> > > directory). It just seems that the drivers/media/ directory is unneeded. 
> > > Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Frank

 I agree This gets very annoying and repetitive when trying to find files 

--J.R.
 
 

Re: 2.5.44 : move files from drivers/media/* ?

[Russell King]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:52:46AM -0400, linuxguruguy wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:31, grstuhrberg wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 21:45, Frank Davis wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >   There are video and radio drivers within
> > > > drivers/media/video and drivers/media/radio respectively.
> > > > 
> > > > Shouldn't those drivers move from drivers/media/video to drivers/video ? 
> > > > and same with radio (either a new directory or within an existing 
> > > > directory). It just seems that the drivers/media/ directory is unneeded. 
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Frank
> 
>  I agree This gets very annoying and repetitive when trying to find files 

By that same argument, we should only have one directory containing all the
.c and .h files in the entire kernel source tree.

The files in drivers/media/video are _completely_ unrelated to
drivers/video.  If anything, drivers/video should become drivers/framebuffer,
which is what it really is.  This would get rid of the "video" confusion.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

Re: 2.5.44 : move files from drivers/media/* ?

[Russell King]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Frank Davis wrote:
> Hello all,
>   There are video and radio drivers within
> drivers/media/video and drivers/media/radio respectively.
> 
> Shouldn't those drivers move from drivers/media/video to drivers/video ? 

drivers/video are display drivers.  drivers/media/video are grabber
drivers.  The two are different.

Reasons why drivers/media exists can be found by searching a LKML
archive.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html