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

On Monday 2011-06-20 04:25, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

quoted

pktgen in hamachi/yellowfin should be pkteng

I think it might be better if:

Things were more spelled out:
        pkteng should be packetengines

That sounds fine.  I will make the change.

What's next, directory naming by Windows-originating coding styles -
"Drivers/Networking/Ethernet/Packet Engines/"?

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And things maybe not spelled out
        ixp2000 might just be ixp (what not intel?:)

I don't understand your logic of doing pkteng -> packetengines
and ixp2000 -> ixp at the same time. I was quite thankful that
Linux's driver names were not (always) TLAs like in OpenBSD.

While this is an Intel chip, the part was sold off and the driver is not
maintained by Intel.  That is reason why it does not reside in
the /driver/net/ethernet/intel/ directory.

And that's why it probably should not be attempted. The i in ixp
will remind us enough that it once was Intel's doing - just as
in ixgb, rtl*, atl*, etc. Separation by company seems unnecessary
to me.