linux-kernel - Re: [Tree, v2] De-clutter the top level directory, move ipc/ => kernel/ipc/, samples/ => Documentation/samples/ and sound/ => drivers/sound/

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Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:28:45 -0500
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [Tree, v2] De-clutter the top level directory, move ipc/ => kernel/ipc/, samples/ => Documentation/samples/ and sound/ => drivers/sound/

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> writes:

>  - Split it into finer grained steps (3 instead of 2 patches per 
>    movement), for easier review and bisection testing:
>
>      toplevel: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: move the files
>      toplevel: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: adjust the build system
>      toplevel: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: adjust comments and documentation

Can we not mess with ipc/ please.

I know that will mess with my muscle memory and I don't see the point.
Especially as long as it is named ipc and not sysvipc.

A half cleanup really looks worse than a real cleanup.

SysV IPC really is a side car on the kernel and on unix in general
and having the directory structure reflect that seems completely sensible.

Eric