Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I think I'm "special".
> > 
> > There was some other similar change a few years ago, which I
> > absolutely hated because of how it broke autocomplete for me. Very few
> > other people seemed to react to it.
> 
> FWIW, I am obsessively sensitive to autocomplete and overall source code 
> file hieararchy and nomenclature details as well, so it's not just you.
> 
> Beyond the muscle memory aspect, nonsensical naming and inanely flat file 
> hierarchies annoy kernel developers and makes it harder for newbies to 
> understand the kernel source as well.
> 
> The less clutter, the more organization, the better - and there's very 
> few valid technical reasons to add any new files or directories to the 
> top level directory - we should probably *remove* quite a few.
> 
> For example 'firmware/' was recently moved to drivers/firmware/, and in a 
> similar fashion about a third of the remaining 22 directories should 
> probably be moved too:
> 
>   drwxr-xr-x    arch
>   drwxr-xr-x    block
>   drwxr-xr-x    certs           # move to build/certs/ dir
>   drwxr-xr-x    crypto          # move to kernel/crypto/ or security/crypto/
>   drwxr-xr-x    Documentation
>   drwxr-xr-x    drivers
>   drwxr-xr-x    fs
>   drwxr-xr-x    include
>   drwxr-xr-x    init
>   drwxr-xr-x    ipc             # move to kernel/ipc/
>   drwxr-xr-x    kernel
>   drwxr-xr-x    lib
>   drwxr-xr-x    LICENSES
>   drwxr-xr-x    mm
>   drwxr-xr-x    net
>   drwxr-xr-x    samples         # move to Documentation/samples/
>   drwxr-xr-x    scripts         # move to build/scripts/
>   drwxr-xr-x    security
>   drwxr-xr-x    sound           # move to drivers/sound/

Heh, I was always surprised that sound/ made it into top level... and no, I'd not
mind it being moved away.

> There's a few borderline ones:
> 
>  - 'block' could in principle move to drivers/block/core/ but it's fine 
>    at the top level too I think.
> 
>  - 'init' could in principle be moved to kernel/init/ - but it's not 
>    wrong at the top level either.

net would also make sense as drivers/net/core... That is what inspired sound/ afaict.

> I'm volunteering to do this (in a scripted, repeatable, reviewable, 
> tweakable and "easy to execute in a quiet moment" fashion), although
> I also expect you to balk at the churn. :-)

I'd like to see that happen...

Best regards,
									Pavel

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