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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 10:05:46 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] split BPF out of core networking
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* Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:

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

>   net: filter: split filter.c into two files
>   net: filter: split BPF out of core networking
> 
>  arch/Kconfig           |    3 +-
>  include/linux/filter.h |    2 +
>  net/Kconfig            |    4 +
>  net/Makefile           |    1 +
>  net/bpf/Makefile       |    5 +
>  net/bpf/core.c         | 1063 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/core/filter.c      | 1023 +---------------------------------------------
>  7 files changed, 1079 insertions(+), 1022 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 net/bpf/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 net/bpf/core.c

I like the splitup, but please put it into lib/bpf/ or kernel/bpf/ to 
signal its 'generic', 'core' nature, to be used in many subsystems 
outside of networking.

Thanks,

	Ingo