Re: USBIP (staging) driver's dependency on drivers/usb/core internal headers

[Eric Lescouet <Eric.Lescouet@VirtualLogix.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:52:26AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:44:11PM +0200, Eric Lescouet wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The USBIP modules (and some others) have a direct dependency on the following headers:
>>>> - drivers/usb/core/hdc.h (struct usb_hcd and various routines)
>>>> - drivers/usb/core/hub.h (couple of constants)
>>>> Because those headers are not part of include/, it makes it quite difficult
>>>> to compile them as standalone modules (e.g.: against pre-compiled kernel).
>>> Then don't do that :)
>>>
>>>> hdc.c and hub.c are relatively self-contained and could be moved to e.g.: include/linux/usb/.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>> I think the code needs to be cleaned up and merged to the main part of
>>> the kernel tree, then this wouldn't be an issue, right?
>> I think moving hub.h into include/linux/usb would be a good thing.  
>> However, if this is done then the file contents should be rearranged 
>> slightly:
>>
>> 	Everything from the "Hub request types" comment through the
>> 	various HUB_TTTT_* definitions (except the line declaring
>> 	struct usb_device) should be extracted into a separate file.
>> 	This new file could be called ch11.h (because it contains 
>> 	constants and structures from Chapter 11 of the USB 2.0 spec, 
>> 	just as ch9.h contains information from Chapter 9) or it
>> 	could keep the name hub.h.  It could even be exported as
>> 	a userspace header file.
>>
>> 	The remainder (not very much) should be merged into hcd.h.
>>
>> Once that's done, moving hcd.h into include/linux/usb would be a 
>> reasonable thing to do as well.  It is shared between usbcore and the 
>> HCDs, so it really does belong in a more public location.
> 
> Ok, fair enough.  Patches are always welcome :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

If I understand correctly, splitting hub.h into hub.h + ch11.h is 
independent of the move. At the end the 2 (or 3 files) would end up
into include/linux/usb/.
correct?

I've tried to move hub.h and hcd.h and to compile the kernel, already.
Changing the path of the #include directives in ~40 files did the trick.

Would you like 2 patches (move and then split) or only 1?

Thanks,
	Eric.