Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:49:41 -0500 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: rpaulo@gmail.com, rrs@lakerest.net, arch@FreeBSD.org, julian@elischer.org, net@FreeBSD.org, rizzo@iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: spliting kernel ipfw source ? (also involves sctp) Message-ID: <m2fxhvdg4a.wl%gnn@neville-neil.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>
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At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:22:02 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> 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
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