22 May
2008
22 May
'08
5:50 p.m.
On Thursday 2008-05-22 17:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I am in favor of keeping /sound around with the non-hardware-dependent code, much like /block does with regard to /drivers/block.
I'd personally *much* rather have just one subdirectory. [...] BUT:
- perhaps more importantly, it's totally different from 'sound' in that the block/ and drivers/block/ maintainership is actually *separate*.
[...] So I'd personally much rather see just one drivers/sound/ than have this split up.
Surveille et rapport.
I took a look at how FreeBSD does this, just for comparison. They have a single ${src}/dev/sound, but also no split "net" otoh afaics. As always, if you think Linux should have a drivers/sound/, just direct your lieutenants to do so.