[dm-devel] [PATCH] md: rename some drivers/md/ files to have an "md-" prefix

Bart Van Assche Bart.VanAssche at wdc.com
Tue Oct 10 21:29:53 UTC 2017


On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 17:02 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Motivated by the desire to illiminate the imprecise nature of
> DM-specific patches being unnecessarily sent to both the MD maintainer
> and mailing-list.  Which is born out of the fact that DM files also
> reside in drivers/md/
> 
> Now all MD-specific files in drivers/md/ start with either "raid" or
> "md-" and the MAINTAINERS file has been updated accordingly.

Hello Mike,

Although this patch looks fine to me: has it been considered to move the
device mapper files into a new subdirectory, e.g. drivers/dm?

Thanks,

Bart.




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