Re: [PATCH] uapi: update install list after nvme.h rename

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 03:46:08 EST


On 01/11/2016, 02:14 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Commit 9d99a8dda154 ("nvme: move hardware structures out of the uapi
> version of nvme.h") renamed nvme.h to nvme_ioctl.h, but the uapi list
> still refers to nvme.h. People trying to install the headers hit a
> failure as the header no longer exists.

Wouldn't reverting the rename be nicer to userspace? So that the
filename is preserved and anybody who #included nvme.h still can do so?

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
> index dc6172c..7bb6aeb 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/Kbuild
> @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ header-y += nfs_mount.h
> header-y += nl80211.h
> header-y += n_r3964.h
> header-y += nubus.h
> -header-y += nvme.h
> +header-y += nvme_ioctl.h
> header-y += nvram.h
> header-y += omap3isp.h
> header-y += omapfb.h
>


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