From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262647AbVHDSXr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262648AbVHDSXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:23:40 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:6862 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262534AbVHDSXd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:23:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:26:52 -0700 From: Grant Grundler To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files Message-ID: <20050804182652.GF20422@esmail.cup.hp.com> References: <52iryla9r5.fsf@cisco.com> <1123178038.3318.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1123178038.3318.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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