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Message-ID: <20110615203516.GM21309@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:35:16 -0400
From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving files around in drivers/net
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:38:43AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 13:01, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:53 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> > Does anyone still think moving files around in drivers/net
> >> > would be sensible and a suitable candidate for inclusion
> >> > in 3.1?
> >> > Here's what Jeffrey proposed:
> >> > http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/netconf-jtk.pdf
> >> > Here's what I proposed before that.
> >> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg149717.html
> >> I am over 90% done with the work and have been trying to finish up the
> >> patches so that I could get them out as an RFC here in the next week.
> >
> > Excellent, thanks.
> >
>
> I thought for sure I would have finished what I have left by last
> weekend, but I keep getting interrupted. (Blame it on the NHL stanley
> cup playoffs) :)
>
> I have created a git tree on kernel.org with all the work that I have
> completed so far (see below). This first stage of the move is only
> taking care of the drivers. The next stage will move the networking
> core drivers (bridging, bonding, vlan, etc.) into drivers/net/sw.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-organize
>
> I will send out all the patches as an RFC by the end of the week (for sure).
>
My only complaint about this is that as expected we lose any history
that used to be there with the 'git log' command. Of course 'git log
--follow' still works on individual files, but we lose the ability to
look at entire directories.
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