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From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:32:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52iryla9r5.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)

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

             reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04 17:32 Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-08-04 17:48 ` [openib-general] [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files Tom Duffy
2005-08-04 17:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:26   ` [openib-general] " Grant Grundler
2005-08-04 19:51     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:31   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 18:38     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:57       ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 19:22         ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-04 19:54           ` Christopher Friesen
2005-08-04 20:02             ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-04 19:51         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 18:11 ` [openib-general] " Steve Wise
2005-08-04 18:20 ` Grant Grundler
2005-08-04 18:32   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-04 21:38 ` James Lentini
2005-08-05  9:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-05 16:08   ` Roland Dreier
2005-08-05 21:06     ` Sam Ravnborg

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