From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 5 20: 2:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8578537C01C for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA41219; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA44599; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007060303.UAA44599@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200007060243.UAA46744@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:03:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Jul-00 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200007050704.AAA42641@john.baldwin.cx> John Baldwin writes: >: pccard/ - formerly sys/pccard > > Maintainers Veto. Do not do this. This sys/pccard will go away in > time. There will be a sys/dev/pccard when newcard comes in. DO NOT > MOVE sys/pccard. It will make it impossible to have both OLDCARD and > NEWCARD in the tree at the same time. Leave it be as a bit of cruft > that will be (and is being) replaced. > > Thank you for your understanding in this matter :-). No problem. >: - There has been one vote so far to ditch the whole net/ reorg, although >: other people have expressed support for it. > > Make that two votes. It is a gratuitous change that will buy us only > incompatibility with other systems. Also, it will make installing > header files into /usr/include/netinet much harder than it needs to > be. And these are the defined APIs that we can't break. Please keep > that in mind :-) It's pretty much dead at this point. >: - There have been a few votes for sys/bus instead of sys/dev for isa, eisa, >: pci, cam, usb, and friends. > > Don't care too much. Will make compatibility harder with other > systems, but not hugely so. I'm going with sys/dev since that is where they are in both OpenBSD and NetBSD. >: - The question has been raised as to whether or not splitting up netinet >: is feasible. I'd like to hear back some more from people working with >: the code if splitting it up is difficult, and if it is, if having >: sys/net/inet containing all IP, TCP, UDP, etc. is a more workable option? > > No. I don't think it is. It's not relevant if it isn't going to be moved. > Warner -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message