On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:08:06AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 6/9/21 7:53 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 07:22:03AM -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > The incoming xrt patchset has a toplevel subdir xrt/ > > > The current fpga/ uses a single dir with filename prefixes to subdivide owners > > > For consistency, there should be only one way to organize the fpga/ dir. > > > Because the subdir model scales better, refactor to use it. > > > The discussion wrt xrt is here: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fpga/68e85a4f-4a10-1ff9-0443-aa565878c855@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > > Follow drivers/net/ethernet/ which has control configs > > > NET_VENDOR_BLA that map to drivers/net/ethernet/bla > > > Since fpgas do not have many vendors, drop the 'VENDOR' and use > > > FPGA_BLA. > > > > > > There are several new subdirs > > > altera/ > > > dfl/ > > > lattice/ > > > xilinx/ > > > > > > Each subdir has a Kconfig that has a new/reused > > > > > > if FPGA_BLA > > > ... existing configs ... > > > endif FPGA_BLA > > > > > > Which is sourced into the main fpga/Kconfig > > > > > > Each subdir has a Makefile whose transversal is controlled in the > > > fpga/Makefile by > > > > > > obj-$(CONFIG_FPGA_BLA) += bla/ > > > > > > Some cleanup to arrange thing alphabetically and make fpga/Makefile's > > > whitespace look more like net/'s > > > > > > Changes from > > > v1 > > > Drop renaming files > > > Cleanup makefiles > > You can rename the files, you just can not rename the .ko objects > > without everyone knowing what you are doing and you trying to bury it in > > the middle of a differently described patch. > > > > If you want to do that, do you? I don't really understand why you want > > to move things around right now other than "we have 40 files in one > > directory, ick!". > > I am trying to resolve the layout inconsistency between what we have and > what the xrt patchset does. Why does it matter? New stuff can be added to a new dir, why worry about old stuff? What does it hurt? > The big issue is the files vs dirs. > > Over specified filenames is secondary, so I dropped them. > > 40 files in one dir is itself not a problem. > > having 40 files and an xrt/ is. Why is that a "problem"? > fpga/ layout should be consistent so the Makefile and Kconfig are easier to > maintain. Is it somehow hard to maintain today? Seems pretty trivial to me... thanks, greg k-h
