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Subject: Re: reduce directories in sys/modules ?
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Is there a way to reduce the number of directories in sys/modules ?
> 
> There seems to be one directory per module, even though many of
> those are related and the source resides in one place
> (e.g. sys/modules/iwifw/ has three children but the source
> is in sys/contrib/dev/iwi ; and the same goes for many other
> entries e.g.
> sys/modules/digi* <-> /sys/dev/digi,
> sys/modules/drm	<-> sys/dev/drm
> sys/modules/ata
> 
> and many more.
> Ideas ?

I have many under netgraph.
maybe we could cluster them by type.
ethernet
protocols
  or does that not help what you want?

> 
> cheers
> luigi
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