moving sctp to a separate directory ? (Re: svn commit: r201523 - head/sys/netinet)

Bjoern A. Zeeb bz at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 4 19:15:07 UTC 2010


On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> taking a random commit to this tree -- would you guys consider moving
>> the sctp sources to its own directory, e.g. netinet/sctp/ or something
>> that suits better ?
>> 
>> It would help to browse through the directory:
>>
>> 	NAME		FILES		LINES
>>
>> 	netinet/	156		153k
>> 	sctp*		 36		 66k
>> 	tcp*		 24		 16k
>> 	ipfw/		  9		  9k
>> 
>> 
>> I understand that some of the headers should remain in netinet/
>> but surely the code is not bound to a specific place...
>> 
>
> we should move tcp too.. it's growing without bounds..


Right and all three of SCTP, UDP and TCP are ideally netinet/
independent and will as well work with netinet6 only one day so moving
them to a subdir of netinet is not really future-oriented.

/bz

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