From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: Move user-shareable stuff in scsi/scsi.h to uapi/scsi/scsi.h Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 18:11:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20150109171148.GA17380@lst.de> References: <1420746479-25949-1-git-send-email-agrover@redhat.com> <1420746479-25949-3-git-send-email-agrover@redhat.com> <20150109101422.GA23804@lst.de> <1420817266.2064.1.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150109154613.GA29124@lst.de> <1420818638.2064.5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150109160140.GA29372@lst.de> <1420821180.2064.10.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:36971 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757279AbbAIRLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:11:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1420821180.2064.10.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andy Grover , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 08:33:00AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > Yes, but they have to be delivered to users somehow. If you look at > debian, they deliver the headers through the linux-dev-libc package > which installs into the /usr/include directory. linux-libc-dev despite the name is provided from the kernel source package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-libc-dev > Since glibc currently > owns the entirety of /usr/include/scsi, we have to help the distros > figure out how we deliver the headers, otherwise all uapi exports of > SCSI stuff just gets ignored ... That's why I've been arguing for adding a new linux/scsi_ioctl.h header to bypass that whole conflict since my first mail in this thread.