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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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