Re: in-kernel DRM tree move around....

From: Alexander van Heukelum
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 05:05:28 EST


On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:46:22 +1000, "Dave Airlie" <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hi,
>
> So I've been growing more annoyed with the current layout of the drm
> tree in the kernel,
>
> a) it lives under char.
> b) everything in one directory.
> c) header files in one directory.
> d) no header files exposed to userspace.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7df9a948d0f849466e3de259cccb49bc54cbad68
>
> is a proposal to create drivers/gpu/drm, (I may move AGP in there as
> well later). It also creates per-driver subdirs.

Looks like a lot more suitable place! I just wonder if drivers/video/drm
would be even more logical?

Greetings,
Alexander

> This to me solves the a-d problems.
>
> There is also an out-of-tree kernel drm which I'll probably give some
> more thought later.
>
> Dave.
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