Re: [RFC Patch] bonding: move to net/ directory

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:45:14PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>> Hello, Jay, Andy,
>>
>> Is there any peculiar reason that bonding code has to stay
>> in drivers/net/ directory?
>>
>> Since bonding and bridge are somewhat similar, both of
>> which are used to "bond" two or more devices into one,
>> and bridge code is already in net/bridge/, so I think it also
>> makes sense to move bonding code into net/bonding/ too.
>>
>> This could also help to grep the source more easily. :)
>>
>> What do you think about the patch below?
>> (Note, this patch is against net-next-2.6.)
>>
>
> I would rather keep the code for bonding in drivers/net since it is
> really a pure device (though not directly tied to any specific
> hardware) rather than a device + forwarding or management code.

Is this a reason strong enough to leave it to drivers/net/ ?
I think it is generic enough to be moved to net/ directory... :-/

>
> It has bothered me for a long time that the code just to manage the VLAN
> and bridge devices sits outside of drivers/net, but I've never proposed
> a patch to move the files as I suspect the maintainers of that code
> would like to keep it all together.  Maybe it is time to do that.
>

You mean move net/8021q/ to drivers/net/8021q/ ?

Thanks!