Re: RFC: net/netfilter reorganization

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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:11:34 +0200

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:48:36 +0200
> > 
> >> The main goal is to get the directory contents to a more reasonable
> >> level and group related stuff together; using just net/netfilter/ct
> >> is still a bit too coarse in my opinion. Under that aspect, what
> >> would your proposed structure be?
> > One thing I'm looking forward to is the elimination of all of
> > the xt_* prefixes, and in general better TAB completion
> > friendliness when I try to open netfilter source files under
> > emacs or grep things from the command line with tab completed
> > paths.
> 
> I'm not sure how emacs handles completion, would using different
> prefixes for matches and targets help? Otherwise I guess we can
> just get rid of the prefixes entirely.

Putting them in different sub-directories would help.

> The main problem with these renames is that it module aliases
> don't work for "rmmod", which is a pretty common thing with
> these modules. I guess we'd need to fix up module-init-tools
> first.

I see.
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