Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:07:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: tshiozak@astec.co.jp, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org, haro@tk.kubota.co.jp, takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI megapatch Message-ID: <200009292007.e8TK7aA06203@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:47:22 %2B0900." <20000929234722R.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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> > > I'd like to move and rename them as I said in my previous mail,
> > > <sys/acpi.h> -> <sys/dev/acpi/acpi.h>
> > > shared by both kernel and userland programs
> > > <sys/dev/acpi/acpi.h> -> <sys/dev/acpi/acpivar.h>
> > > shared within kernel code (acpi stuff and related drivers)
> >
> > IMHO, it's desirable to use the name "acpi.h", because of conflict
> > with the file dumped by /usr/sbin/config.
> >
> > I love :
> > fooreg.h : device dependent and implementation independent
> > structures, macros, and others.
> > foovar.h : implementation dependent ones.
>
> Thanks Shiozaki-san, I think `reg' is short for registers of the
> target chip, correct? In ACPI's case, PM1 register and some such
> and maybe definitions for ACPI tables.
> How about kernel/userland shareable stuff like ioctl? for example,
> usb(4) has this kind of definitions in dev/usb/usb.h, not in usbreg.h.
> Is this a special case violating the guideline?
> I think we can distinguish them like "usb.h" and <dev/usb/usb.h>,
> also we will stop generating acpi.h in kernel build directory.
Typically you would have:
acpivar.h Data structures defined by implementation
acpireg.h Data structures defined by interface
acpiio.h Interface to userland
Since we're all in agreement, I'll move to these.
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