netdev - Re: [RFC net-next v2 00/71] Organize/Move of the Ethernet drivers in drivers/net/

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:00:40 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v2 00/71] Organize/Move of the Ethernet drivers
 in drivers/net/

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 08:45 -0700, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > drivers/net/{ => ethernet/3com}/3c501.c
> 
> I for one appreciate that Linux has short overall directory
> structure. At work we have like 5-6 directories before
> actual code and it sucks very much.

I agree to some degree.  I agree that it nice to only have to go 2-3
layers deep to get to code, but it is also not useful to wade through
357 files in a directory.

drivers/net/ is the largest directory under drivers/ and is 2 times
larger than the next largest directory in drivers/.  There are 2255
files/directories in /drivers/net/ and majority are Ethernet drivers.
It has gotten to a point where there needed to be an additional level(s)
of organization.  So yes, you have to dig a bit deeper (but it is
logical).

drivers/media/ is the next largest at 23 MB with 1526 files.

> 
> > have tab-completion actually work
> 
> What do you mean?

What I meant was that tab-completion not becoming not useful when you
get >20 results, you usually end up having to type the entire file name
for what you want.  It is nice to type 1-2 characters (and then <tab>)
and get back <5 potential or exact results.  David actually brought this
up as an advantage to the new directory structure, which I agree with.

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