On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:57:50AM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> In terms of the "priority" model I'd put "classes" above "misc"
> and below any functionally defined directories ... to my thought,
> it just recognizes that they're a slightly less random grouping,
> more significant than "misc" (because of USB-IF blessing) but
> where there also aren't enough product-level variances to need
> individual directories (like storage).
> 
> The bulk of the Linux source tree is functionally organized,
> not sorted by what some vendor group (USB-IF in this case)
> happened to deliver (or not).
> 
> That'd change "net/cdc-ether.[hc]".  Of course, if the rest of the
> Linux hierarchy were cleanly categorized, either "media" would
> be "video", or it'd include "sound" ... there are always glitches
> in naming schemes!  :)

In thinking about this a lot more this morning, and Oliver's comments, I
agree.  class/ should be a catch-all for drivers that would have fallen
into misc/.  So this leaves only 4 drivers in class/, but that's ok with
me :)

I'll rework this again and post my results in a little bit.

> Or if you don't run bitkeeper:
> 
> 
>http://linuxusb.bkbits.net:8080/dir_move-2.5/src/drivers/usb?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers

Ah, thanks for including this.  Probably much faster than sucking down
the whole tree even for those with bitkeeper.

thanks,

greg k-h

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