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Re: fs/ headers



In article <20141229225711.GA15855%netbsd.org@localhost>,
David Holland  <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 06:30:08PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > most of the FSs under sys/fs have their headers in /usr/include/fs/FS-NAME/.
> > Some are just in /usr/include/FS-NAME/: msdosfs - adosfs - filecorefs - 
> > ntfs.
> > 
> > Is it intentional? It's ok if I move them in fs/?
>
>I would leave it alone - some of these may be used by third-party
>code, and it isn't clear which. If we're going to rearrange it, we
>should rearrange *all* the fs headers (e.g. ffs, nfs) at the same
>time, and we aren't ready to do that.
>
>(because... it requires a real version control system... *rimshot*)

Yes, too big of a pain for very little gain... I would leave it alone.
Note that when we moved some filesystems from the top level into fs, we
did not move the includes just to avoid that pain.

christos



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