Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:24:56 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
        Chema Gonzalez <chema@google.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] split BPF out of core networking
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 08:15:45 -0500
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> On Mon,  2 Jun 2014 00:01:44 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> 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.

I believe this is what Ingo suggested as well. If it is become generic,
it belongs in lib/

-- Steve
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