Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:54:38 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | 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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