Re: isofs/cd9660 -> relocate to fs/isofs/cd9660?


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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