From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 22:59:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41E416A403; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:59:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A52D43D7C; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:59:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25FF46C05; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:59:13 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <451D93EE.9040309@elischer.org> Message-ID: <20060929235659.J73166@fledge.watson.org> References: <451ADC21.50206@centtech.com> <200609271727.29775.jhb@freebsd.org> <451D4787.4050309@samsco.org> <200609291618.09492.jhb@freebsd.org> <451D93EE.9040309@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isofs/cd9660 -> relocate to fs/isofs/cd9660? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:59:15 -0000 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