On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:30:06AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: >>> Add some common bus_dmamem routines to be shared by multiple >>> platforms. >> >> Do these really need to be in their own private directory? (whose >> name, I might add, is confusing in the presence of src/common...) > > This is intended to be a collection of common routines for various > subsystems to use. If we had real language / runtime support for it in > the kernel, these would be common implementations of base classes > instead. > > Because this will likely grow into a fairly large collection of > miscellaneous stuff, I figured a separate area would be appropriate. > sys/kern is way too cluttered as it is (and, IMO, also needs to be split > up a bit, but I hesitate to do it until we have a decent version control > system that can maintain history across moves).
The way to split up a misc directory that is too large is not to make another misc directory. The code you committed, being general-purpose bus architecture, ought to live in src/sys/dev somewhere; maybe we should create src/sys/dev/gen. > src/common is stuff shared between kernel and userland. I'm aware of that, and this is why the name you've chosen is confusing. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
