Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:08:26 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@adsu.bellsouth.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: archie@whistle.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, gelderen@mediaport.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD naming Message-ID: <19990120230826.X25047@oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com> In-Reply-To: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FDBA@OCTOPUS>; from paul@originative.co.uk on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:58:13AM -0000 References: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FDBA@OCTOPUS>
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Why not just follow the directory structure under /sys?
Afterall, we are talking about kernel stuff here.
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:58:13AM -0000, paul@originative.co.uk wrote:
[..]
> I don't think subdirectories based on bus type is a good idea, it
> doesn't really fit the granularity we're probably heading towards. Some
> thinks don't really fit at all, filesystems, screen savers etc and even
> for drivers we're heading towards less bus specific devices so an
> ethernet driver, say, would be the same for any bus, only the startup
> code would be different and possibly(probably) in a different module.
>
> A functional structure is probably better
>
> /modules
> /devices
> /ethernet
> /storage
> /display
> /network
> /filesystems
> /screensavers
>
>
> etc.
>
> Not a specific proposal for actual directories but perhaps a better
> direction. I think we should start thinking more in terms of function,
> rather than bus, in a lot of what we do with devices as we abstract out
> the bus code more effectively.
>
> Paul.
>
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