On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:45:14PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:

Hello, Jay, Andy,

Is there any peculiar reason that bonding code has to stay
in drivers/net/ directory?

Since bonding and bridge are somewhat similar, both of
which are used to "bond" two or more devices into one,
and bridge code is already in net/bridge/, so I think it also
makes sense to move bonding code into net/bonding/ too.

This could also help to grep the source more easily. :)

What do you think about the patch below?
(Note, this patch is against net-next-2.6.)

I would rather keep the code for bonding in drivers/net since it is
really a pure device (though not directly tied to any specific
hardware) rather than a device + forwarding or management code.

It has bothered me for a long time that the code just to manage the VLAN
and bridge devices sits outside of drivers/net, but I've never proposed
a patch to move the files as I suspect the maintainers of that code
would like to keep it all together.  Maybe it is time to do that.