Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>>>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>>>> Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm not yet totally up with include/socketcan & include/linux
>>>>>>> seperation (which I don't like to question here).
>>>>>>> I noticed you do patcgh include/socketcan/can/dev.h
>>>>>>> but not include/linux/can/dev.h
>>>>>> Oliver, what was the reason to maintain a redundant 
>>>>>> include/linux/can/dev.h?
>>>>> The reason was to allow userspace applications to include that path. It 
>>>>> would
>>>>> be very bad, if you would need to adapt the userspace apps to include the
>>>>> socketcan stuff, that is intended to separate the driver includes for 
>>>>> older
>>>>> kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we should create symlinks for that ...
>>>> That would be better, indeed, or at least
>>>>
>>>> $ cat include/linux/can/dev.h
>>>> ...
>>>> include/socketcan/can/dev.h
>>>>
>>>> And the link could be created in the Makefile.
>>> ???
>>>
>>> AFAIK you can only create symlinks for real files (not directories) in the
>>> SVN. I would suggest to replace the .h-files in 2.6/include/linux with
>>> symlinks pointing to the .h-files in 2.6/include/socketcan
>> But we could do it in the Makefile, as the Linux kernel does for
>> include/asm.
> 
> Hm - i still don't have a idea how this is done.
> 
> For me it would be important, that userspace Makefiles like the current
> can-utils/Makefile do not need to be changed.
> 
> Is this possible?

No.

Wolfgang.
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