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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:26:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050804182652.GF20422@esmail.cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123178038.3318.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.
> 
> please only put userspace clean headers here; the rest is more or less
> private headers for your subsystem. 

Sorry...this smells like a rathole...but does this mean
linus agrees the kernel subsystems should export headers suitable for
both user space and kernel driver modules?

Historical, I thought glibc and other user space libs were expected to
maintain their own set of header files. Maybe I'm just confused...

thanks,
grant

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04 17:32 [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 17:48 ` [openib-general] " Tom Duffy
2005-08-04 17:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:26   ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2005-08-04 19:51     ` [openib-general] " Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:31   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 18:38     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:57       ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 19:22         ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-04 19:54           ` Christopher Friesen
2005-08-04 20:02             ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-04 19:51         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:11 ` [openib-general] " Steve Wise
2005-08-04 18:20 ` Grant Grundler
2005-08-04 18:32   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 21:38 ` James Lentini
2005-08-05  9:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-05 16:08   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-05 21:06     ` Sam Ravnborg

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