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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 14:57:05 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1
Message-ID:  <20010517145705.D55371@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105172002140.16713-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:14:10PM %2B1000
References:  <200105161641.f4GGfJN79939@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105172002140.16713-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:14:10PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > In message <200105161632.f4GGWIb30517@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
> > : How should this be done - and where should I install digiio.h if 
> > : that's what's required ?
> > 
> > I think that ppi device sets the standard here.  It installs into
> > /usr/include/dev/ppi/ppi*.h.  digiio should likely do the same.
> 
> Ugh.  ppi (actually ppbus) sets a bad example.  A /usr/include/dev
> tree with an average of 1+epsilon files per directory is even worse
> than a /sys/dev tree with an average of about 3 files per directory
> (not counting 4 CVS files per directory).  ppbus actually installs a
> lot of kernel-only headers so /sys/dev/ppbus is not all that small.
> 
> Most headers that define ioctls are in <sys>.  I think there should
> be at most one directory for ioctl headers and it shouldn't be a subdir
> of /usr/include/sys (/usr/include/sys/dev doesn't even reflect the
> kernel tree).
> 
Might I guess it should probably be called /usr/include/sys/io[ctl],
and digiio.h put there.


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