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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.40_timer-changes_A3 (1/3 - infrastructure)
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 09:28, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> > 	Inspired by suggestions from Alan, this collection of patches tries to
> > clean up time.c by breaking out the PIT and TSC specific parts into
> > their own files. Additionally the patch creates an abstract interface to
> > use these existing time soruces, as well as make it easier to add future
> > time sources. 
> 
> I would suggest taking it one small step farther and putting everything in 
> their own subdirectory. Like arch/i386/kernel/timer/, at least for now. IF 
> we ever get an arch/i386/driver/ subdir, it's simple enough to move the 
> dir. One way or another, it unclutters the directory while achieving the 
> same cleanup.

That sounds good. I'll do so before I resubmit. 

Thanks for the feedback!
-john