[openib-general] [PATCH] Add access into build (Roland's branch)

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Sep 29 09:43:19 PDT 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:59:09 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland at topspin.com> wrote:

>     -obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND) += legacy/ core/ ulp/ hw/
>     +obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND) += legacy/ core/ access/ ulp/ hw/
> 
> This doesn't really make sense to me.  Why do we need a core/ and an
> access/ directory?  I prefer core/, since it matches drivers/usb/core,
> net/core and sound/core already in the kernel tree, and "access layer"
> is a bit of jargon that no one not familiar with the history of IB
> stacks is going to understand.  However if we prefer access/ then I'll
> move everything from core/ there.

I think core makes more sense, but I don't really care when we move to that directory structure.  Maybe when we pull together the code...



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