From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:25:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:24:52 -0500 Received: from iwd_mail.intware.com ([216.94.87.36]:61968 "EHLO iwd_mail.intware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:23:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Dimitrie Paun To: "'Linus Torvalds'" , Abramo Bagnara Cc: Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , Jaroslav Kysela , sound-hackers@zabbo.net, linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:03:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@transmeta.com] > > This is my current feeling. > > However, la donna é mobile, and I'm a primus donna, fer > shure. So don't take it _too_ seriously, continue to argue > the merits of other approaches. That's good to know. So let's do so: There is no one grouping: things can be grouped in any number of ways, and for this very reason, a strictly hierarchical grouping does not cut it. What I'm trying to say is that at certain point, a given grouping characteristics becomes less important (say sound) and other (which crosscut other parts of the source) increase in importance (say drivers). For this reason, I think the current organization (net/core + drivers/net) is more practical then the one which initially screams at any CompSci guy (net/core + net/drivers). Now, whichever one we choose, I'd _hate_ to see net organized one way and sound the other way. It would be just ugly. That, together with the fact that I don't think that putting everything under sound/ is in any way superior to the current method, I would suggest we stick to: sound/core + drivers/sound. -- Dimi.