linux-kernel - Re: [FIX REQUEST] Need better management for include/linux/*.h

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Message-ID: <4A599820.9030905@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:00:32 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	nicolas.ferre@...el.com, hskinnemoen@...el.com,
	kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [FIX REQUEST] Need better management for include/linux/*.h

On 07/11/2009 12:18 PM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As include/linux/*.h file count is going to reach 1000.
>
> We need to do some better techniques to reduce the number of files and
> add some hierarchy levels like sub directories where possible.
>
> Like atmel is not exporting to user-space we can easily do :
>
> include/linux/atmel-mci.h     ->  include/linux/atmel/mci.h
> include/linux/atmel_pdc.h     ->  include/linux/atmel/pdc.h
> include/linux/atmel-pwm-bl.h  ->  include/linux/atmel/pwm-bl.h
> include/linux/atmel_pwm.h     ->  include/linux/atmel/pwm.h
> include/linux/atmel_serial.h  ->  include/linux/atmel/serial.h
> include/linux/atmel-ssc.h     ->  include/linux/atmel/ssc.h
> include/linux/atmel_tc.h      ->  include/linux/atmel/tc.h
>
> Also these files are not exporting :
>
> include/linux/kvm_host.h      ->  include/linux/kvm/host.h
> include/linux/kvm_para.h      ->  include/linux/kvm/para.h
> include/linux/kvm_types.h     ->  include/linux/kvm/types.h
>
>    

IMO a much better move is to place non-ABI files (and the #ifdef KERNEL 
parts of ABI files) outside include/linux.


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