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

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Seems reasonable to me...


Steve.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:32 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: [openib-general] [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files
> 
> 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
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