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

Steve Wise
2005-08-04T18:11:54Z

Seems reasonable to me...

Steve.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces@openib.org
> [mailto:openib-general-bounces@openib.org] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:32 PM
> To: openib-general@openib.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [openib-general] [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files
>
> 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.
>
> The advantages of doing this are:
>
> - The headers become more easily accessible to other parts of the
> tree that might want to use IB support. For example, an NFS/RDMA
> client probably wants to live under fs/
> - It makes it easier to build IB modules outside the tree, since
> include/linux gets put in /lib/modules/<ver>/build. I realize
> that we don't really care about out-of-tree modules, but it is
> convenient to be able to develop and distribute new drivers that
> build against someone's existing kernels.
> - We can kill off the ugly
>
> EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Idrivers/infiniband/include
>
> lines in our Makefiles.
>
> The disadvantages are:
>
> - It's churn with little technical merit.
> - It makes it a little harder to pull the OpenIB svn tree into a
> kernel tree, since one would have to link both drivers/infiniband
> and include/linux/rdma instead of just drivers/infiniband. This
> problem goes away if/when OpenIB shifts over to a new source code
> control system.
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
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