From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261512AbVHDRtK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:49:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262486AbVHDRtK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:49:10 -0400 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:32205 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261512AbVHDRtI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:49:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:48:59 -0700 From: Tom Duffy Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files In-reply-to: <52iryla9r5.fsf@cisco.com> To: Roland Dreier Cc: openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <1123177739.29639.1.camel@duffman> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.6.1 (2.3.6.1-3) Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Hipu7u23vuNupnIXz9rl" References: <52iryla9r5.fsf@cisco.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-Hipu7u23vuNupnIXz9rl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:32 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > I would like to get people's reactions to moving the InfiniBand .h > files from their current location in drivers/infiniband/include/ to > include/linux/rdma/. If we agree that this is a good idea then I'll > push this change as soon as 2.6.14 starts. I think it is a great idea. > The advantages of doing this are: >=20 > - The headers become more easily accessible to other parts of the > tree that might want to use IB support. For example, an NFS/RDMA > client probably wants to live under fs/ > - It makes it easier to build IB modules outside the tree, since > include/linux gets put in /lib/modules//build. I realize > that we don't really care about out-of-tree modules, but it is > convenient to be able to develop and distribute new drivers that > build against someone's existing kernels. > - We can kill off the ugly >=20 > EXTRA_CFLAGS +=3D -Idrivers/infiniband/include >=20 > lines in our Makefiles. One more advantage: - It shows our willingness to push past just infiniband. -tduffy --=-Hipu7u23vuNupnIXz9rl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC8lULdY502zjzwbwRAhuBAKCcsHOKR29jhrmucEoemeVTdZ/cOACfejfm Gu69hY+YqeLYxgiPkxBRQlI= =D//0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Hipu7u23vuNupnIXz9rl--