Based on patch originally submitted by Randy Dunlap I have made two
patches that modify the Kconfig bits for net/.
First patch create a new top-level menu just above "Device Drivers"
named "Networking". Hereby one no longer has to look deep in Device
Drivers to find IPv6 for example.
Sample menu structure:
Executable file formats --->
Networking --->
Device Drivers --->
Second patch mainly push out relevant config options from net/Kconfig
to the protocols where they are actually used.
In this process an attempt has been made to fix the indention
to make the menu structure look a bit more logical.
The menu structure has been compared to an unmodified kernel and
no changes are implemented that actually move things around.
After second patch are applied net/Kconfig are down to 234 lines.
It could be trimmed down a bit more if one likes but I restricted this
patch-set to the most obvious stuff.
Also next step could be to create a separate "Networking Protocols"
section or similar - with this change it becomes a much more obvious
change to do so - since only a few source lines would have to be moved
around.
When (if) accepted I expect someone (Dave?) from netdev to push this
onwards.
Sam
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