Re: Why moving driver includes ?

James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:56:48 +0100 (BST)


> Hi James !
>
> Why did you move the driver includes to include/video ? What is
> the reasoning here ?
>
> For example, drivers/video/radeon.h moved to include/video/radeon.h
>
> Is this to be able to share register definitions with the DRM drivers ?
> (I doubt this will ever happen as the DRM is rather self contained)

Yes. You never know. The other big reason was so userland could have a
standard set of hardware header files to program graphics hardware. Now
SDL and directfb etc can use the same header files.

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