Re: Why is "sound" directory directly under the root in kernel source code?

["Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much Adrian for unravelling part of the mystery...

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:55:50AM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
>  > I thought this question was not important as this part of code is relatively
>  > stable and unmodified for a long time, but there are too many possible
>  > potential reasons, that I am really curious to know the truth.
>  >
>  > Why can't it be located under the "drivers" directory?   Is there an overall
>  > architecture design into what qualify to go into "drivers" directory?
>  > Nevertheless all that exists in sound subbranch are still qualified as drivers,
>  > right?
>  >...
>
>  sound/ was moved out of drivers/ in IIRC 2.5.3 when ALSA was added.
>
>  You might search for the discussions back then, but AFAIR there was
>  (and is) no strong reason in either direction.
>
>  > THanks.
>
>  cu
>  Adrian
>
>  --
>
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>
>



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Regards,
Peter Teoh

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