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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:50:49 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, 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
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909081439330.12081-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909071428150.14497-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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> 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



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