2015-05-13 11:01, Bruce Richardson: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:30:45PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> 2015-05-12 19:04, Bruce Richardson: >>> drivers/e1000/e1000/e1000_hw.h | 1026 ++++ >> >> As explained in a previous comment, >> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-May/017509.html >> I think this path would be better: >> drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h > > Two reasons why I didn't create the "net" subfolder: > 1. I initally forgot to consider it :-( > 2. While we may at some future point have other device driver types, are we > really > needing to start categorising PMDs at this point? > > As for the base driver part, I was viewing that as a something that should be > a separate patch set, since it's unrelated to moving things to the drivers > subdir.
I understand your points and I partially agree. However, file moves may be perturbing because it change habits and may complicate a bit the git history browsing. So I think it's better to minimize such moves and do altogether.
