On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:56:24 +1100 Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2013-Jan-17 14:38:06 -0500, "Stephen J. Kiernan" <ste...@juniper.net> > wrote: > >The patch also includes moving zlib.[ch] and zlibutil.h out of net and > >into sys/libkern (for the .c) and sys/sys (for the .h). > > Good. > > >It really doesn't make much sense for that code to live in net, > >especially when so many things which are not the network stack utilize > >it. > > One thing that currently doesn't is ZFS - which has its own copy. It > would be nice if ZFS could use the common copy. I'll take a look at that. > > >Is that going to be a problem? Should simple stubs be added in the > >original locations in net/ to include the one in sys/ now? > > IMHO, no. zlib wasn't an advertised API so nothing outside the base > OS should be using it. If you've moved all the kernel code to use > the new location, that should be enough. Okay, then I won't worry about adding ones. Thanks. -- Stephen J. Kiernan Juniper Networks, Inc. stevek_at_juniper.net
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