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

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Tue Sep 28 20:13:40 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:59, Roland Dreier 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 guess this is temporary too. I don't really care if it is core or
access. I just chose access at the time as it was unclear how things
would evolve. I'm OK with moving ib_mad (and ib_smi) into core when the
time is right.

-- Hal




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