Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:30:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spliting kernel ipfw source ? (also involves sctp) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903021827400.11098@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <8EBEEE24-6473-411D-AE3F-C4D1D3897E51@gmail.com> References: <20090301153010.GA58942@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <49AAFD92.105@elischer.org> <8EBEEE24-6473-411D-AE3F-C4D1D3897E51@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:26, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> Hi, I am planning to split netinet/ip_fw2.c in a number of smaller files >>> to make it more manageable, and while i do this I would also like to move >>> the files related to ipfw2 (namely ip_fw*c) to a better place. Any >>> objection to moving them to sys/netinet/ipfw2 ? Also, I can't help >>> noticing that sys/netinet/ contains 36 files related to sctp -- wouldn't >>> it be the case to move them (perhaps with the exception of the userland >>> headers) to a separate subdirectory ? >> >> for that matter it would be nice to put ALL teh protocols in their own >> subdirectories. > > Yes, that would be the perfect scenario, but I don't think that's doable. > > SCTP can be moved because it hasn't matured enough to cause a "moving > nightmare". > > I vote for "ipfw" like Sam, BTW. I think massively rearranging things doesn't by us much in terms of beauty, but does give us a lot in terms of hassle, given current assumptions of alignment between the layout of /usr/include and the layout of /usr/src/sys. We'd need to introduce new explicit mappings to install include files in their old locations (which are required by applications), etc. For a change with such a minor benefit, the hassle will be huge. I'm fine with renaming the ipfw .c files and leaving in netinet, but let's not get carried away. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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