On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:20:50PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
While we are at the issue ALSA HG <-> GIT transition...
One thing that annoys me sometimes is that the sound driver codes are on a different subdirectory than other normal drivers, namely under /sound. I don't remember exactly why it came there, but this often makes people forget to change the necessary code for the sound subsystem, or slip from the statistics (I'm not sure whether Linus counted sound/* with recent his posts).
If I understand correctly, with git, we can move the files in relatively little costs. So, what about moving sound/* back to drivers/sound/* or drivers/media/sound/*?
Sounds good.
Of course, the primary question is whether it's really worth. The obvious drawback is that patches won't be applicable after the move. So, if we do it, doing at the last seems practical. But, this can be a bit problem with keeping such a change on linux-next until the next merge...
And, another question is to where. drivers/sound or drivers/media/sound, or whatever.
Under drivers/media/ it would only generate confusion regarding who's responsible for what.
But drivers/sound/ sounds good.
The only possible problem that comes into my mind is to check what happens with the link order.
Any comments appreciated.
thanks,
Takashi
cu Adrian