linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] split BPF out of core networking

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Message-ID: <20140602081545.7baf4a91@lwn.net>
Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2014 08:15:45 -0500
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] split BPF out of core networking

On Mon,  2 Jun 2014 00:01:44 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com> wrote:

> This patch set splits BPF out of core networking into generic component

Quick, probably dumb question: if you're going to split it out, why not
split it out entirely, into kernel/ or (perhaps better) lib/?  The
whole point seems to be that BPF is outgrowing its networking home, so
it seems like it might be better to make it truly generic.

jon
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