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

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

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Eric Lescouet wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Two files.  The first would be ch11.h (or maybe keep the name hub.h; 
> I'm not sure which is best), and the second would be hcd.h (including 
> the leftover parts from the original hub.h).
> 

OK. understood now ;-)

>> 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?
> 
> If it weren't for the rename, I'd say do it in two patches.  But if the 
> name is changed to ch11.h then those 40 files would have to be altered 
> twice.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 

Well, most of the files include hcd.h (which includes hub.h),
only ~4 of them directly use hub.h.
So what's your vote? rename hub.h into ch11.h?

	Eric.