linux-kernel - Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 3/9] nbd: Remove kernel internal header

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Message-ID: <20150215215626.GB28491@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:56:26 +0100
From:	Markus Pargmann <mpa@...gutronix.de>
To:	Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>
Cc:	nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 3/9] nbd: Remove kernel internal header

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:30:24AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:57:31PM +0100, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > The header is not included anywhere. Remove it and include the private
> > nbd_device struct in nbd.c.
> 
> It exists mostly for the benefit of userspace trying to speak the NBD
> protocol. I've stopped trying to depend on it (since nbd-server needs to
> run on !Linux, too), but there are other implementations that might want
> to use it.
> 
> nbd.h is part of a public API. Let's not drop it.

This is just about the kernel internal header include/linux/nbd.h. It is
not about the uapi header. I don't want to remove the protocol header.

The header this patch is about defines only 'struct nbd_device' which is
as far as I can tell only used by nbd.c.

Best regards,

Markus

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