On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:41:54PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> willy@thepuffingroup.com writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:00:26AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> writes:
> > > > * Add ieee1394 directory, requested by Andreas Bombe.
> > >
> > > I know this has been mentioned before, but I'd like to reiterate
> > > my request for a way to just look in *every* subdirectory.
> > > I does not have to be the default, but it should be at least possible
> > > to get this behavior with some /etc/modules.conf editing.
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure why the modules are segregated into separate
> > directories anyway. The namespace collision already happens at
> > build time (when they're all symlinked into /usr/src/linux/modules)
> > and modprobe is invoked (by me anyway) with just the name of the
> > module, so why pretend it's not a flat namespace? Eschew
> > obfuscation.
>
> Because a flat directory is harder to view for the human. When I ask
> myself "do I have the ne2k-pci module", it's obvious to just look in
> the "net" directory.
surely
ls *ne2k*
is not too hard for someone who wants to know the answer to that question?
> The subdirectories are a natural categorisation
> that makes life easier. It's not about pretending there is a
> hierarchical namespace.
but it makes life somewhat more complex than necessary for the kernel
build scripts and for modutils.
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