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

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

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> This all sounds like change for the sake of change to me.  I don't see any
> compelling argument for moving bonding (or bridging or vlans, etc) around at
> all.  All of these software drivers have feet in multple subsystems, but that
> just means that theres not going to be a compelling argument to move them any
> place,  at least not without an immediate subsequent argument that it really
> belonged back where it was.  Unless you can show a solid benefit to moving the
> code, I don't see why any reorganization is needed.

Well, as a people who worked on bonding code, I have no problem to know
bonding code is under drivers/net/, but for people who don't know this, probably
net/ is the first place they want to search.

The other similar thing is that pktgen is in net/core/ while netconsole is in
drivers/net/, which seems a little strange too.

vlan vs macvlan is the third example.

In short, there are three callers of netdev_rx_handler_register(), macvlan,
bonding and bridge, only bridge code stays in net/ directory.