Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:54:38 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Cc: niv@us.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, davem@redhat.com,
       netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch/RFC] networking menus
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:07:24 -0800 "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

| On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:17:17 -0800 Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> 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


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~Randy
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