include/linux

Klaus Kudielka (kudielka@crl.go.jp)
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:59:39 +0900


Hello all, I have a simple question:

If I want to export the control interface of a certain driver to a user-level
configuration utility (e.g. structure definitions for ioctls), do I still put
the header file in include/linux?

>From various glibc discussions I remember that this should _not_ be done -
include files in the kernel distribution are just for use of the kernel and
nobody else. I also remember somebody saying that /usr/include/linux will
vanish, eventually.

Hence, the alternative is to keep a second copy of the interface definition with
the configuration utility.

Is there a definite guideline? I just want to do the right thing.

-Klaus

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