Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: headers: potential UAPI headers

From: James Simmons
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 18:33:25 EST



> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > .../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?
> >
> > 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.