Re: [RFC] Moving files around in drivers/net

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:38:43AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 13:01, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:53 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

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Does anyone still think moving files around in drivers/net
would be sensible and a suitable candidate for inclusion
in 3.1?
Here's what Jeffrey proposed:
http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/netconf-jtk.pdf
Here's what I proposed before that.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg149717.html

I am over 90% done with the work and have been trying to finish up the
patches so that I could get them out as an RFC here in the next week.

Excellent, thanks.

I thought for sure I would have finished what I have left by last
weekend, but I keep getting interrupted.  (Blame it on the NHL stanley
cup playoffs) :)

I have created a git tree on kernel.org with all the work that I have
completed so far (see below).  This first stage of the move is only
taking care of the drivers.  The next stage will move the networking
core drivers (bridging, bonding, vlan, etc.) into drivers/net/sw.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-organize

I will send out all the patches as an RFC by the end of the week (for sure).

My only complaint about this is that as expected we lose any history
that used to be there with the 'git log' command.  Of course 'git log
--follow' still works on individual files, but we lose the ability to
look at entire directories.