Re: [openib-general] Re: [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files

Grant Grundler
2005-08-04T18:23:47Z

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