From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 7 21:52:12 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D841A15403 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 22969 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1999 04:50:54 -0000 Received: from d152.syd2.zeta.org.au (203.26.9.24) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 8 Sep 1999 04:50:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:50:49 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Bruce Evans , dfr@nlsystems.com, peter@netplex.com.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/sio sio.c src/sys/isa sio.c sioreg.h In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Right now I'm only objecting to the misorganisation in /dev. I have > > objected to it before :-). I don't want directories with 1 or 2 files > > in them. The bus-independent part of the sio driver probably needs 2 > > files, sio.c and siovar.h (not the existing sioreg.h). > > Right now sys/dev/sio has 1 or 2 files. > > In the future it will have as many as 10. > > sio_isa.c > sio_pci.c > sio_mca.c > sio_eisa.c > > etc... I hope not. > Keeping all the files for a particular driver in 1 place and not all > spread out makes propogating changes to the various files a little easier > to manage no? No :-). Changes should rarely need to be propagated if the core is properly designed. E.g., in my cy driver, which is similar to sio, I rarely had to even look at cy_pci.c. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message