Breaking out kern_mac.c into multiple files
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 30 13:51:28 PDT 2003
As the scope of the MAC Framework has grown, so has kern_mac.c. It's
reached the point where breaking it into separate files would make it a
lot easier to read, by virtue of logically grouping its exposed functions,
APIs, etc. Similarly scoped extension frameworks, such as NetGraph and
GEOM, have opted to go into sys/$framework, with files named similarly.
My leaning was to do something similar -- add sys/mac, and then have
mac_framework.c, mac_net.c, mac_sysvipc.c, etc. I probably won't get to
this for a bit because I want to avoid introducing large numbers of
conflicts for our outstanding changes, but I was going to poll for general
interest in placement, naming, etc. Some of the other choices would be to
keep it in kern/, but rename (similar to the System V IPC bits, VFS bits,
et al).
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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