On 06-Jul-00 Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Baldwin writes:
>: pccard/ - formerly sys/pccard
>
> Maintainers Veto. Do not do this. This sys/pccard will go away in
> time. There will be a sys/dev/pccard when newcard comes in. DO NOT
> MOVE sys/pccard. It will make it impossible to have both OLDCARD and
> NEWCARD in the tree at the same time. Leave it be as a bit of cruft
> that will be (and is being) replaced.
>
> Thank you for your understanding in this matter :-).
No problem.
>: - There has been one vote so far to ditch the whole net/ reorg, although
>: other people have expressed support for it.
>
> Make that two votes. It is a gratuitous change that will buy us only
> incompatibility with other systems. Also, it will make installing
> header files into /usr/include/netinet much harder than it needs to
> be. And these are the defined APIs that we can't break. Please keep
> that in mind :-)
It's pretty much dead at this point.
>: - There have been a few votes for sys/bus instead of sys/dev for isa, eisa,
>: pci, cam, usb, and friends.
>
> Don't care too much. Will make compatibility harder with other
> systems, but not hugely so.
I'm going with sys/dev since that is where they are in both OpenBSD and
NetBSD.
>: - The question has been raised as to whether or not splitting up netinet
>: is feasible. I'd like to hear back some more from people working with
>: the code if splitting it up is difficult, and if it is, if having
>: sys/net/inet containing all IP, TCP, UDP, etc. is a more workable option?
>
> No. I don't think it is.
It's not relevant if it isn't going to be moved.
> Warner
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