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From: Stathis Voukelatos <stathis.voukelatos@linn.co.uk>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, <abrestic@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Linn Ethernet Packet Sniffer driver
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:52:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C75FDB.80805@linn.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422301185.18650.4.camel@perches.com>


On 26/01/15 19:39, Joe Perches wrote:
> This header file is the public API for the driver.
> Should it not live under the 'include' directory?
> Several other drivers seem to follow that convention.
> It depends on how public is public.
>
> If it's _really_ public, it should be in uapi.
> If it's kinda public, then _maybe_ it should be
> in include/linux, but how likely is it another
> driver will use it?
>
>
It is intended for user space code that needs
to use the driver as it defines the netlink messages and
attributes that the driver understands. So I guess
uapi/linux would be the place for it.

Thanks,
Stathis

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 10:07 Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-23 10:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-26 11:23   ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-23 10:51 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-26 10:16   ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-27 10:53     ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-23 11:20 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-01-26  9:49   ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-26 10:10     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-01-27 11:15       ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-27 14:46         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-01-27 17:22           ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-23 18:12 ` James Hogan
2015-01-26 11:05   ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-24 21:37 ` Joe Perches
2015-01-26 11:11   ` Stathis Voukelatos
2015-01-26 19:39     ` Joe Perches
2015-01-27  9:52       ` Stathis Voukelatos [this message]
2015-01-26 22:30 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-01-27 10:51   ` Stathis Voukelatos

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