Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:38:02 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: staging: where to put system-wide includes |
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On Thu 2009-10-08 14:40:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:28:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > In staging, I need some includes that will become "system-wide" at the > > end. > > > > Is it acceptable to create drivers/staging/include/linux (and > > friends), and then use -I magic to include those headers? > > If you need system-wide inclusions it's pretty good sign that what > you add is not a simple driver and thus should not just go into the > staging tree. Given that you're a long-timer kernel hackers what's the > problem with getting your code fully up to kernel standards anyway?
Well, it is not exactly my code -- I'm trying to merge HTC Dream support. Problem with "simply cleaning it up" is that its 122Kloc.
Pavel
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