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
next 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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