netdev
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [patch/RFC] networking menus

To: lkml <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch/RFC] networking menus
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:54:38 -0800
Cc: niv@xxxxxxxxxx, benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040314190724.1af1f11d.rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>
Organization: OSDL
References: <20040314163327.53102f46.rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> <4055122D.8030809@xxxxxxxxxx> <20040314190724.1af1f11d.rddunlap@xxxxxxxx>
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:07:24 -0800 "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

| On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:17:17 -0800 Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
| | Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| | 
| | > This is just a first pass/RFC.  It moves "Networking support" out of
| | > the "Device Drivers" menu, which seems helpful to me.  However,
| | > ISTM that it should really just be the "Networking options" here
| | > and not include Amateur Radio, IrDA, and Bluetooth support.
| | > I.e., I think that those latter 3 should fall under Device Drivers.
| | > Does that make sense to anyone else?
| | 
| | Just a comment that those 3 subsystems are not just
| | device drivers, they have non-trivial amount of code
| | in the protocol stack under ../net/. So would moving
| | them to device drivers be misleading in any way?
| | 
| | I can see pulling out Networking support from under
| | device drivers, though.
| 
| Agreed, I looked again and those 3 should stay under
| "Networking support."  I'm still looking for other items
| to move to make it all easier to navigate.

Does it make sense to anyone besides me to move protocol-related
modules like SLIP, PPP, and PLIP from Device Drivers/Network device(s)
to "Networking support"?
They feel more like protocols than device drivers to me....


| | > Does this need to be discussed on netdev (also)?
| | 
| | Yes. :)
| 
| OK.  Thanks for cc-ing it.
| 
| | thanks,
| | Nivedita


--
~Randy

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>