Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:39:21 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spliting kernel ipfw source ? (also involves sctp) Message-ID: <49AAC849.9060105@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090301153010.GA58942@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20090301153010.GA58942@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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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 ?
>
> (I know the same reasoning would apply to tcp, which has 23 files,
> but the issue here is that there is 25 years of userland code expecting
> the tcp headers in netinet/ and moving them would be a
> nightmare for ports...)
>
I think sctp belongs in it's own directory.
I'd vote for just ipfw; the "2" was an artifact of previous code.
Sam
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