This might be wandering off-topic a small bit,
but I'd like to hear some comments on this.
Why wouldn't we move several or most modules in
drivers/usb/ and hence /lib/modules/usb/ to their
"fuctional" directory, like audio/, video/,
net/ (or dev/net/)?
Is this better or worse than having many different
function-drivers in drivers/usb/ ?
Does drivers/scsi/ have a variety of function-drivers?
Maybe ieee1394 does also?
Thanks,
~Randy
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik Kubla [mailto:dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de]
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:40:34PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> If there must be directories, IMO "video" and "sound" should have
> priority over "ieee1394".
>
If we really want a structured layout of /lib/modules/*, i think we
should do it right:
dev Device drivers
audio Audio devices
block Misc. block devices (eg. loop, proprietary cdrom's, ...)
char Misc. char devices (eg. nvram, watchdog, ...)
ide IDE devices
ieee1394 IEEE-1394 devices
net Networking devices
scsi SCSI devices
usb USB devices
video Video devices
fs File systems
net Networking protocols
sys System specific modules (eg. FP emulator, ...)
But i honestly think, we should ditch the subdirectories and just adopt
a flat single directory: it makes things simpler and namespace collision
will happen at compile time anyway, so we need not worry about this.
Yours,
Dominik Kubla
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