Re: DRM reorganization

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. 
> Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the DRI 
> tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree).  We plan to move it 
> "up" to its own module at the top level.  That should make it *much* 
> easier for people that want to do things with the DRM but don't want all 
> the rest of X (i.e., DRI w/DirectFB, etc.).
> 
> When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing the 
> file structure.  What can we do to make it easier for kernel release 
> maintainers to merge changes into their trees?

- Make sure that the files in the main kernel distribution are up to date.

- Prepare a shell script which does all the relevant file moves, send to
  Linus, along with a diff which fixes up Kconfig and Makefiles.

- Start patching the files in their new locations.