netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 01/15] devlink: move code to a dedicated directory

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Message-ID: <20221216103216.6a98725b@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:32:16 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, jacob.e.keller@...el.com, leon@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 01/15] devlink: move code to a dedicated
 directory

On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:10:41 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> Hmm, as devlink is not really designed to be only networking thing,
> >> perhaps this is good opportunity to move out of net/ and change the
> >> config name to "CONFIG_DEVLINK" ?  
> >
> >Nothing against it, but don't think it belongs in this patch.
> >So I call scope creep.  
> 
> Yeah, but I mean, since you move it from /net/core to /net/, why not
> just move it to / ?

It still needs to depend on NET for sockets, right?