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Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:10:41 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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

Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 08:09:25PM CET, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:51:43 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> > net/Makefile                            | 1 +
>> > net/core/Makefile                       | 1 -
>> > net/devlink/Makefile                    | 3 +++
>> > net/{core/devlink.c => devlink/basic.c} | 0  
>> 
>> What's "basic" about it? It sounds a bit misleading.
>
>Agreed, but try to suggest a better name ;)  the_rest_of_it.c ? :)
>
>> > 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > create mode 100644 net/devlink/Makefile
>> > rename net/{core/devlink.c => devlink/basic.c} (100%)
>> >
>> >diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile
>> >index 6a62e5b27378..0914bea9c335 100644
>> >--- a/net/Makefile
>> >+++ b/net/Makefile
>> >@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BPFILTER)		+= bpfilter/
>> > obj-$(CONFIG_PACKET)		+= packet/
>> > obj-$(CONFIG_NET_KEY)		+= key/
>> > obj-$(CONFIG_BRIDGE)		+= bridge/
>> >+obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK)	+= devlink/  
>> 
>> 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 / ?