Re: [PATCH 4/4] remove <linux/hdreg.h>

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On Thursday 24 July 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 July 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:37:58PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > It has no in-kernel users now and can be removed.
> > > 
> > > But beeing an exported header it has userspace users.  Plese keep it
> > > and just leave the ioctl defintions as need by userspace in it instead
> > > of renaming that part to hdio_ioctls.h.
> > 
> > Agreed w.r.t. to keeping it (the last patch was more of rfc than intended
> > to be commited, sorry that I didn't mark it as such) but what's wrong with
> > moving ioctl definitions to hdio_ioctls.h so we have clean separation of
> > obsoleted userspace-only stuff & userspace/kernel stuff?
> 
> Well, if there was anything kernel-related left in hdreg.h I would
> agree to split it, although I'd prefer to move the kernel part out.
> 
> But given that you kill all the kernel only bits anyway, just leave
> the user interface in hdreg.h even if it's slightly misnamed.

Yep, no need to move it around.  I reworked patchset accordingly.

Thanks,
Bart
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