linux-kernel - Re: adapter, what's in a name

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802201116300.26109@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:20:33 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
cc:	Karl Dahlke <eklhad@...cast.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: adapter, what's in a name


On Feb 20 2008 10:38, Stefan Richter wrote:
>Karl Dahlke wrote:
>> The longer I stay on this list, the more I will learn.
>> But it's high volume, so I may not be able to stay for long.
>
>Because of the high volume at this list, it is essential that
>  - you keep everyone who posted in a tread in the Cc: list of your
>    replies, (that way it is possible to discuss on LKML even with
>    people who are not subscribed; but more importantly, people who
>    take part in a discussion are less likely to miss replies),
>  - you actually reply rather than start new threads all the time.

Indeed, in PINE, mails with your address in Cc get preprended with a
minus sign, mails with your addr in To gets prepended with a plus
sign, conveniently marking the discussions one has taken part in. (Or
alternatively, one can use 'select all mails with my address' to
color-highlight it.) Pretty nifty.

>Aren't those drivers ones for
>  - input devices,
>  - display devices (in a more general sense than visual displays, i.e.
>    also including audible and tactile displays)?
>Besides, if you had for example an USB device of that type, the most
>natural place for its sources would be somewhere beneath drivers/usb/.

Well actually, I think it would go into drivers/input/. It is not
quite obvious.

Wireless USB -- drivers/net/wireless, not drivers/usb/
Serial USB   -- drivers/usb/serial, not drivers/serial/usb/
for example, but it seems to flow well anyway.

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