Re: staging: where to put system-wide includes

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:28:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In staging, I need some includes that will become "system-wide" at the
> end.
> 
> Is it acceptable to create drivers/staging/include/linux (and
> friends), and then use -I magic to include those headers?

If you need system-wide inclusions it's pretty good sign that what
you add is not a simple driver and thus should not just go into the
staging tree.  Given that you're a long-timer kernel hackers what's the
problem with getting your code fully up to kernel standards anyway?

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