On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:55:50AM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> I thought this question was not important as this part of code is relatively
> stable and unmodified for a long time, but there are too many possible
> potential reasons, that I am really curious to know the truth.
>
> Why can't it be located under the "drivers" directory? Is there an overall
> architecture design into what qualify to go into "drivers" directory?
> Nevertheless all that exists in sound subbranch are still qualified as drivers,
> right?
>...
sound/ was moved out of drivers/ in IIRC 2.5.3 when ALSA was added.
You might search for the discussions back then, but AFAIR there was
(and is) no strong reason in either direction.
> THanks.
cu
Adrian
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