Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>> Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> 
>>>>> I'm not yet totally up with include/socketcan & include/linux
>>>>> seperation (which I don't like to question here).
>>>>> I noticed you do patcgh include/socketcan/can/dev.h
>>>>> but not include/linux/can/dev.h
>>>> Oliver, what was the reason to maintain a redundant 
>>>> include/linux/can/dev.h?
>>> The reason was to allow userspace applications to include that path. It 
>>> would
>>> be very bad, if you would need to adapt the userspace apps to include the
>>> socketcan stuff, that is intended to separate the driver includes for older
>>> kernels.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should create symlinks for that ...
>> That would be better, indeed, or at least
>>
>> $ cat include/linux/can/dev.h
>> ...
>> include/socketcan/can/dev.h
>>
>> And the link could be created in the Makefile.
> 
> ???
> 
> AFAIK you can only create symlinks for real files (not directories) in the
> SVN. I would suggest to replace the .h-files in 2.6/include/linux with
> symlinks pointing to the .h-files in 2.6/include/socketcan

But we could do it in the Makefile, as the Linux kernel does for
include/asm.

Wolfgang.
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