Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:39:14 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Where to put include files (was: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105181137390.27157-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200105171600.f4HG0Pl05438@billy-club.village.org>
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200105171233.f4HCXhb62786@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian > Somers writes: > : Solaris calls it's ioctl files /usr/include/sys/<driver>_io.h so I'd > : spell digiio.h /usr/include/sys/digi_io.h. > > Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like putting it in > /usr/include/sys/fooio.h. We have lots of other files there now. The > down side to this approach is that it breaks up the driver sources > that we've been trying to concentrate into sys/dev/foo/* (or > introduces asymetry such that you can't just toss in a -I/sys and have > the same tree that gets stuck under /usr/include). I quite like the fact that the programming interface <sys/fooio.h> is separated from the driver implementation. There is less chance that the driver writer will expose irrelavent implementation details in the API, which in turn makes for a more stable ABI. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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