On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:02:03PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: L> > L> Then if you do sys/net/altq/ do you also plan to split the current L> > L> content of sys/net/ into separate subdirectories ? L> > L> L> > L> We currently have quite a few separate things in sys/net/, such as L> > L> - various bpf files L> > L> - generic ifnet support (including raw sockets) L> > L> - various libraries (compression and hash functions) L> > L> - routing code L> > L> - bridging code L> > L> - a ton of special ifnets, (tun, tap, epair, gif, ....) L> > L> - bridging code L> > L> that could benefit from a bit of partitioning L> > L> > I definitely agree that a) special interfaces b) lagg+lacp L> > c) generic libraries should be separated. I don't mind if anyone does L> > this job :) L> > L> > But I personally would prefer is this is done after the lifetime L> > of the projects/ifnet branch, since if stuff is moved while I work L> > on projects/ifnet, my merging will become a nightmare. I already have L> > conflicts quite often. L> > L> L> sure, there is no rush. L> I was just trying to understand why your preference is for sys/net/altq L> instead of sys/netaltq as we have for other components.
I think that dropping everything into sys/ is historical. Perfectly, protoctols should live in net/ as well, like net/inet and net/inet6, but of course no one would support that move. The most recent network related subdir in sys/ is netpfil. Frankly speaking I didn't like the name, and that word wasn't my, but Bjoern's. But, if I advocated for net/pfil, then the argument would be that pfil hooks reside in sys/netinet and in sys/netinet6, not in sys/net, thus moving that into net/pfil is wrong. At the time I really wanted to gather or pfil consumers in one place, and move pf out of contrib, so I accepted name suggested by Bjoern without arguing. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
