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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] scsi_id 0.1 - generate unique scsi id
Date: 23 Oct 2003 03:33:32 -0400
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>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com> writes:

Patrick> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:52:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox
Patrick> wrote:
>> You shouldn't be installing them into the <sys/> namespace, that's
>> basically owned by POSIX.  How about <sysfs/> instead?

Patrick> I incorrectly suggested we should use <sys/>.

Patrick> Should we use <linux/>, rather than another new directory?

Rule of thumb: any existing hierachy is reserved, either you want to
drop it in header root, ie. /usr/include or /usr/loca/include or you
want to create your own hierachy, <sysfs/> as Matthew suggested looks
like a good candidate to me.

Cheers,
Jes