Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:59:13 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isofs/cd9660 -> relocate to fs/isofs/cd9660? Message-ID: <20060929235659.J73166@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <451D93EE.9040309@elischer.org> References: <451ADC21.50206@centtech.com> <200609271727.29775.jhb@freebsd.org> <451D4787.4050309@samsco.org> <200609291618.09492.jhb@freebsd.org> <451D93EE.9040309@elischer.org>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> What about moving all of the net* directories into /sys/net?. And don't >>> forget putting i386 and friends into /sys/arch! Ah, I love the smell of >>> fresh paint in the morning. Smells like.... napalm. >> >> Baby steps aren't hard. :) Back when I first made rumblings about this >> sort of thing we didn't have a sys/fs at all, but now we do and over time >> we've actually moved most of our filesystems into it. :) > > there was a sys/miscfs which could have been used.. > > Matt Dillon took the oportunity to redo the tree in DF. I wonder how that's > working out? I think the best model for handling utterly gratuitous source tree rearrangements is to do them only in the context of the code finding a maintainer, and in the context of a larger piece of work. I.e., if a developer finds their location irksome, they can first agree to take responsibility for the code before randomly moving it around, rather than having it be a one-pass drive-by. For example, I recently had uipc_socket2.c renamed to uipc_sockbuf.c (mostly) as part of overall cleanup and work on the socket layer. I would not have dreamed about doing this if I hadn't already been working on the socket layer heavily. This is something along the lines of "you break it, you buy it", only it's a case of "You fix it, you avoid the bikeshed". :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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