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

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Message-ID: <47BC2B2C.90208@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:29:16 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.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

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 20 2008 10:38, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>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,
...
> Indeed, in PINE, mails with your address in Cc get preprended with a
> minus sign,

Also, one can have rules to automatically sort into different mail folders.

...
>>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.

Right, I should have looked that up before posting.

Many drivers interact with more than one kernel subsystem, so the answer
to what put where is indeed not always obvious.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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