From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Tim.Bird@sony.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brendanhiggins@google.com,
skhan@linuxfoundation.org, broonie@kernel.org,
jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com, anders.roxell@linaro.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:07:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190924080715.GA63699@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ECADFF3FD767C149AD96A924E7EA6EAF977BB784@USCULXMSG01.am.sony.com>
* Tim.Bird@sony.com <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ingo Molnar on Sunday, September 22, 2019 1:26 AM
> >
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:35 AM Brendan Higgins
> > > <brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sorry about that. I am surprised that none of the other reviewers
> > > > brought this up.
> > >
> > > I think I'm "special".
> > >
> > > There was some other similar change a few years ago, which I
> > > absolutely hated because of how it broke autocomplete for me. Very few
> > > other people seemed to react to it.
> >
> > FWIW, I am obsessively sensitive to autocomplete and overall source code
> > file hieararchy and nomenclature details as well, so it's not just you.
> >
> > Beyond the muscle memory aspect, nonsensical naming and inanely flat file
> > hierarchies annoy kernel developers and makes it harder for newbies to
> > understand the kernel source as well.
> >
> > The less clutter, the more organization, the better - and there's very
> > few valid technical reasons to add any new files or directories to the
> > top level directory - we should probably *remove* quite a few.
> >
> > For example 'firmware/' was recently moved to drivers/firmware/, and in a
> > similar fashion about a third of the remaining 22 directories should
> > probably be moved too:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x arch
> > drwxr-xr-x block
> > drwxr-xr-x certs # move to build/certs/ dir
> > drwxr-xr-x crypto # move to kernel/crypto/ or security/crypto/
> > drwxr-xr-x Documentation
> > drwxr-xr-x drivers
> > drwxr-xr-x fs
> > drwxr-xr-x include
> > drwxr-xr-x init
> > drwxr-xr-x ipc # move to kernel/ipc/
> > drwxr-xr-x kernel
> > drwxr-xr-x lib
> > drwxr-xr-x LICENSES
> > drwxr-xr-x mm
> > drwxr-xr-x net
> > drwxr-xr-x samples # move to Documentation/samples/
> > drwxr-xr-x scripts # move to build/scripts/
>
> This one seems like it would break a lot of workflows, and contributor
> muscle memory and scripts. get_maintainer.pl and checkpatch.pl
> are probably in quite a few people's scripts.
>
> Also, I'm not sure '/build' is the right destination for this. There
> are a lot more things in there than just build scripts. If you really
> want to remove the top level 'scripts', it might be best to put
> the scripts from top-level '/scripts' into '/tools/scripts', which is
> mostly empty now.
Agreed - I'll leave it alone for now, because you are right that it's
widely used.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-24 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 19:26 [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 Shuah Khan
2019-09-20 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 16:26 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <CAKRRn-edxk9Du70A27V=d3Na73fh=fVvGEVsQRGROrQm05YRrA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-09-20 16:35 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 18:03 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 18:16 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 18:06 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-22 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-22 11:52 ` Greg KH
2019-09-23 14:44 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 19:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-23 19:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-09-23 20:29 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 20:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-23 21:11 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 20:08 ` [RFC, Tree] De-clutter the top level directory, move ipc/ => kernel/ipc/, samples/ => Documentation/samples/ and sound/ => drivers/sound/ Ingo Molnar
2019-09-24 11:31 ` [Tree, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2019-09-24 15:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-24 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-25 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-23 23:54 ` [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 Tim.Bird
2019-09-24 8:07 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-09-26 12:52 ` David Sterba
2019-09-27 13:52 ` Pavel Machek
2019-10-03 9:08 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-22 12:29 Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-23 22:40 Shuah Khan
2019-09-26 20:10 ` pr-tracker-bot
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