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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