Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751883AbdFOQ4o (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:56:44 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45340 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbdFOQ4n (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:56:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:56:33 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: James Simmons Cc: "Drokin, Oleg" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "Dilger, Andreas" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lustre Development List Subject: Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: headers: potential UAPI headers Message-ID: <20170615165633.GA4478@kroah.com> References: <1482167207-22800-1-git-send-email-jsimmons@infradead.org> <20170103141248.GA8695@kroah.com> <20170117074140.GA19328@kroah.com> <20170121092459.GA29138@kroah.com> <32AAAA94-0C88-40F5-8FAD-37F35A401AC3@intel.com> <20170613042531.GB13308@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 24 On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:48:20PM +0100, James Simmons wrote: > So this is coming from trying to understand the "merge them together" > part. Some people reading this it implies all the headers would be > eventually merged into one big header and placed into include/uapi/linux. Sounds like a good plan, why wouldn't you want something nice and simple like that? :) > We are getting to the point where some sites are migrating from the out > of tree branch to this client. This also means they will be moving > external open source userland applications shortly. If we expose UAPI > headers that are completely different that it breaks their tools users > will dump this client and go back to the out source tree. We really like > to avoid that. Note, as the code is still in staging, files will get renamed and moved around, you know that, nothing we can do here at the moment. I have yet to see any patches yet, so I don't know why people are complaining... thanks, greg k-h