netdev - Re: [Patch v2] net: move ifenslave from Documentation/networking to tools/networking

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20120201.144516.1768998791668325095.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] net: move ifenslave from Documentation/networking
 to tools/networking

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Feb 2012 17:23:25 +0800

> V2: fix Documentation/networking/Makefile
> 
> ifenslave is a real tool, and it seems main distros already ship this.
> It is nice to move it to tools/networking/ directory.
> 
> (Note that this patch is generated by 'git diff -C', in case of having
> a large patch. It can be applied with git-apply.)
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

This is terrible.

In the existing location there is all kinds of Makefile
infrastructure, for example "hostprogs-X", to build utility programs,
yet the thing you added under tools has to do everything by hand.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html