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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: lustre: headers: potential UAPI headers
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 08:20:15PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2017, at 02:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:33:11PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:06:47PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> Not for landing. This is the purposed UAPI headers
> >>>>>> with the removal of unlikely and debugging macros.
> >>>>>> This is just for feedback to see if this is acceptable
> >>>>>> for the upstream client.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_fid.h | 353 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>> .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_ostid.h | 233 ++++++++++++++
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you make a lustre "uapi" directory so we can see which files you
> >>>>> really want to be UAPI and which you don't as time goes on?

I said that ^^^

> >>>> Where do you want them placed? In uapi/linux/lustre or uapi/lustre. Does
> >>>> it matter to you? The below was to forth coming UAPI headers which from
> >>>> your response you seem okay with in general.
> >>>
> >>> How many .h files are there going to be? It's just a single filesystem,
> >>> shouldn't you just need a single file? If so, how about
> >>> drivers/staging/lustre/include/uapi/lustre.h
> >>> ?
> >>>
> >>> If you really need multiple .h files, put them all in the same uapi/
> >>> directory with a lustre_ prefix, you don't need a whole subdir just for
> >>> yourself, right?
> >>
> >> We have 12 UAPI headers and yes they all begin with lustre_*. Okay I will
> >> create a driver/staging/lustre/include/uapi/linux directory and start
> >> moving headers there.
> >
> > 12 seems like a lot just for a single, tiny, filesystem :)
> >
> > But moving them all to a single directory will see where we can later
> > merge them together, sounds like a good plan.
>
> Greg,
> are you really adamantly against moving the Lustre headers into their own lustre/
> subdirectory?

I did not say that.

Please, when responding to 5 month old email messages, get your quoting
correct...

greg k-h

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