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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, 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 good idea.

> The advantages of doing this are:
>
>  - 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/

net/sunrpc/ has also been proposed.