From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 16:50:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0441065677 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from proxy.meer.net (proxy.meer.net [64.13.141.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2368FC1D for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [64.13.141.3]) by proxy.meer.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n22Go1Js049248; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:50:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail2.meer.net (mail2.meer.net [64.13.141.16]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id n22GngaW022220; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:49:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from gnnmac.hudson-trading.com.neville-neil.com (209.249.190.8.available.above.net [209.249.190.8] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail2.meer.net (8.14.1/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n22Gnfol004421; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:49:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: "George V. Neville-Neil" To: perryh@pluto.rain.com In-Reply-To: <49ab42ca.YZ1mfcCDO0pvdDhv%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20090301153010.GA58942@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <49AAFD92.105@elischer.org> <8EBEEE24-6473-411D-AE3F-C4D1D3897E51@gmail.com> <49ab42ca.YZ1mfcCDO0pvdDhv%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.3 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanIt-Geo: No geolocation information available for 64.13.141.3 X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.141.13 Cc: rpaulo@gmail.com, rrs@lakerest.net, arch@freebsd.org, julian@elischer.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spliting kernel ipfw source ? (also involves sctp) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:50:06 -0000 At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:22:02 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > 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". > > Perhaps everything can be moved, if hardlinks or symlinks are > left in sys/netinet for those parts (mostly .h files, presumably) > which have too much legacy to be moved outright. I do not believe we want to go down the path of doing links. I do think that moving protocols is OK, and SCTP is a good candidate. I have cc'd the maintainer in case he's not on arch@. As to the original question about ipfw, if it can e done cleanly then yes that's fine. Best, George