[PATCH net-next] page_pool: split types and declarations from page_pool.h

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Thu Jul 20 09:22:47 PDT 2023


On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:07:31 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> > BTW, what do you think: is it better to have those two includes in the
> > root include/net/ folder or do something like
> > 
> > include/net/page_pool/
> >   * types.h
> >   * <some meaningful name>.h (let's say driver.h)
> > 
> > like it's done e.g. for GPIO (see include/linux/gpio/)?  
> 
> It make more sense to add a new dir for page pool if there are
> more new headers added. As we are still keeping the page_pool.h
> mirroring include/linux/gpio.h, adding a new dir for only one
> header file only add another level of dir without abvious benefit.
> We can add a new dir for it if we turn out to be needing more header
> file for page pool in the future, does it make sense?

It doesn't matter all that much so I think to have some uniformity 
in networking please go with Olek's suggestion which is also my
preference.



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