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SubjectRe: staging: where to put system-wide includes
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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