Re: staging: where to put system-wide includes

Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-08T18:41:06Z

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:28:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In staging, I need some includes that will become "system-wide" at the
> end.
>
> Is it acceptable to create drivers/staging/include/linux (and
> friends), and then use -I magic to include those headers?

If you need system-wide inclusions it's pretty good sign that what
you add is not a simple driver and thus should not just go into the
staging tree. Given that you're a long-timer kernel hackers what's the
problem with getting your code fully up to kernel standards anyway?