Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932216AbaFBNPu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:15:50 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:39487 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753401AbaFBNPs (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:15:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 08:15:45 -0500 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Daniel Borkmann , Chema Gonzalez , Eric Dumazet , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] split BPF out of core networking Message-ID: <20140602081545.7baf4a91@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1401692506-7796-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> References: <1401692506-7796-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 00:01:44 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > This patch set splits BPF out of core networking into generic component Quick, probably dumb question: if you're going to split it out, why not split it out entirely, into kernel/ or (perhaps better) lib/? The whole point seems to be that BPF is outgrowing its networking home, so it seems like it might be better to make it truly generic. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/