Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:30:20 -0500 From: Steve Kiernan <stevek@juniper.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [JNPR] Proposal for changes to network device drivers and network stack (RFC) Message-ID: <20130122163020.61ca7908@stevek-ubuntu> In-Reply-To: <20130119235624.GB30633@server.rulingia.com> References: <CC6EF6B2.1917A%anshukla@juniper.net> <f1d8693fa83965f0d4a485a2db7e603b@novexsolutions.com> <b472e266d076a9246065961c8bf7c039@novexsolutions.com> <20130119235624.GB30633@server.rulingia.com>
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--Sig_/ldP4lK=1LGjJcZRSslWOk97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:56:24 +1100 Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote: > On 2013-Jan-17 14:38:06 -0500, "Stephen J. Kiernan" <stevek@juniper.net> = wrote: > >The patch also includes moving zlib.[ch] and zlibutil.h out of net and=20 > >into sys/libkern (for the .c) and sys/sys (for the .h). >=20 > Good. >=20 > >It really doesn't make much sense for that code to live in net,=20 > >especially when so many things which are not the network stack utilize=20 > >it. >=20 > One thing that currently doesn't is ZFS - which has its own copy. It > would be nice if ZFS could use the common copy. I'll take a look at that. >=20 > >Is that going to be a problem? Should simple stubs be added in the=20 > >original locations in net/ to include the one in sys/ now? >=20 > IMHO, no. zlib wasn't an advertised API so nothing outside the base > OS should be using it. If you've moved all the kernel code to use > the new location, that should be enough. Okay, then I won't worry about adding ones. Thanks. -- Stephen J. Kiernan Juniper Networks, Inc. stevek_at_juniper.net --Sig_/ldP4lK=1LGjJcZRSslWOk97 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlD/BOwACgkQZSuJlLuTi6hQ1gCgyKMWbZjLY2GLSEiivTU/P3Zi VD4AoKHHKce7sB+mjDkuAHnXTSRA0oWc =+Flx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ldP4lK=1LGjJcZRSslWOk97--
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