[irda-users] Re: [PATCH] (16/16) move last of irsyms.c to af_irda.c

[Stephen H. <she...@os...>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:03:52 -0800
Jean Tourrilhes <jt...@bo...> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:56:44AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Move last bits of code out of irsyms and onto the end of af_irda.c
> > where initialization happens.
> 
> 	Hum... I think that af_irda.c is the wrong place to put the
> init code. The reason is that you could imagine running an IrDA stack
> without any of the socket interface. So, you just remove af_irda from
> the makefile and the stack should work fine. Actually, IrCOMM2k just
> does that.
> 	It seems to me that irproc would be an easy target. Or maybe
> just renaming irsymc.c to irda.c. Comments ?
> 
> 	Jean

But, the existing startup code in irsyms.c had to have af_irda already
because it called irsock_init; and irproc.c is not built if proc_fs is not configured.
Could put it in irda.c but thought best to model after other protocols (like af_inet.c)