organization

[ALeine]

tbyte at OTEL.net wrote:

>    And the worts of all is that You are both right to some extent. The 
> new developers want the source tree arranged in the way mohamed says it 
> should be. Not some device drivers live in pci/ other in dev/ and things 
> like that. And on the other hand experienced kernel hackers who want 
> things to stay as they are so it is easy for them to navigate in know 
> waters. IMHO mohamed is a bit "more" right.

If you are really dedicated to studying the kernel sources at that level
issues such as learning the layout are really nonissues, the time a new
developer initially spends hunting around for files because they are not
familiar with the layout is insignificant compared to the time
experienced developers would lose as a result of a new layout being
introduced, especially during a critical development stage. Once all the
major changes are finished and we move to micro optimization a new, more
consistent and logical layout would be an option, but until then, IMHO,
things should stay the way they are.

Also, the benefit of such a reorganization at this time does not justify
the work needed to make it happen. It Would Be Nice (TM), but it's not
practical.

ALeine
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