netdev - Re: [RFC Patch] bonding: move to net/ directory

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:48:18 +0000 (UTC)
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] bonding: move to net/ directory

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:31:05 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:50 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 00:34 +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>> > I agree with this, IMHO this would help to organize the code better.
>> > And currently only tuntap and bonding are still in net/ directory. In
>> > any aspects, now we are mixing net/ and drivers/net/ currently, which
>> > could be improved.
>> 
>> There is a proposal to move some drivers/net content to drivers/net/sw/
>> 
>> http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/netconf-jtk.pdf
>> 
>> I think that'd be fine too.
>> 
>> I believe Jeff is going to submit patches soonish.
>> 
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/197232
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Correct, patches will be sent out here this week.
> 

But I still don't see them so far... :-/ Can you Cc me as well?

> As far as moving tunap, bonding, etc into /drivers/net/sw that is the
> eventual plan, but I have not done this work for this upcoming patchset.
> I want to coordinate this work with Stephen Hemminger before I do any
> moves.

Is net/bridge ==> drivers/net/sw/bridge in your plan too?

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