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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:31:57 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usb module orginization
Message-ID:  <20030708172030.G10618@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030707190944.GE44762@funkthat.com>
References:  <20030707071617.GD44762@funkthat.com> <20030707202047.M7292@gamplex.bde.org> <20030707190944.GE44762@funkthat.com>

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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 20:24 +1000:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to move the usb modules into a subdir like the many
> > > other "groups" of modules already in the tree.  (i2c, digi, geom,
> > > netgraph, to name a few)
> > >
> > > i.e. modules/usb/ucom, modules/usb/usb, modules/usb/aue etc.
> >
> > This would be bug-for-bug compatible with the i2c, digi, geom,
> > netgraph groups of modules to name a few.  Don't forget to put
> > the installed modules in subdirs so that they are hard to find too.
>
> There is one thing that I don't like about modules in a subdir is that
> you can't select them well.  But, not having them in a sub dir means you
> don't know what modules belong to usb w/o using a find . -name Makefile
> | xargs grep usb (or something else).  Even then do you put something
> like uaudio under sound or usb? :)  (currently it's under sound)
>
> Do you want me to bug compatible by adding a prefix for it?  (like snd_
> or geom_, but not i2c.)

Many of them (all except network drivers?) already have a 'u' prefix.
I wouldn't mind that, but would prefer not to change to or from it.

Bruce



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