On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:53:34PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> L> Then if you do sys/net/altq/ do you also plan to split the current
> L> content of sys/net/ into separate subdirectories ?
> L>
> L> We currently have quite a few separate things in sys/net/, such as
> L> - various bpf files
> L> - generic ifnet support (including raw sockets)
> L> - various libraries (compression and hash functions)
> L> - routing code
> L> - bridging code
> L> - a ton of special ifnets, (tun, tap, epair, gif, ....)
> L> - bridging code
> L> that could benefit from a bit of partitioning
>
> I definitely agree that a) special interfaces b) lagg+lacp
> c) generic libraries should be separated. I don't mind if anyone does
> this job :)
>
> But I personally would prefer is this is done after the lifetime
> of the projects/ifnet branch, since if stuff is moved while I work
> on projects/ifnet, my merging will become a nightmare. I already have
> conflicts quite often.
>

sure, there is no rush.
I was just trying to understand why your preference is for sys/net/altq
instead of sys/netaltq as we have for other components.

thanks again
luigi
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