From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move some constants around
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:11:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030920181149.GA26141@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030920185037.A3530@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:50:37PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:33:35PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > We should try to keep all constants in include/scsi/scsi.h instead
> > of drivers/scsi/scsi.h. Also tidy up include/scsi/scsi.h a bit.
>
> The original design purpose of include/scsi/scsi.h versus
> drivers/scsi/scsi.h was to have constants that are meaningful
> in user space (such as constants defined in the SCSI standard)
> in <scsi/scsi.h>, while kernel-internal stuff lived in
> drivers/scsi/scsi.h.
The current design purpose of include/scsi/ is to be for the kernel
only. glibc has it's own scsi/ headers. and drivers/scsi/scsi.h
is going away completly (slowly).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-20 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-20 13:33 [PATCH] move some constants around Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-20 16:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-20 18:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-09-20 18:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-20 19:17 ` Jeff Garzik
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