Re: [openib-general] [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files

[Tom Duffy <Thomas.Duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:32 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 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.

I think it is a great idea.

> 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.

One more advantage:

   - It shows our willingness to push past just infiniband.

-tduffy

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