netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] rdma: fix header files

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 16:13:07 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] rdma: fix header files

On 5/4/18 3:56 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> All user api headers in iproute2 should be in include/uapi
> so that script can be used to put correct sanitized kernel headers
> there. And the header files for rdma must be a complete set; if one
> header file includes another, all must be present.
> 
> This fixes build on older distributions, and Windows Services
> for Linux.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> ---
>  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_sa.h                |   77 ++
>  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_verbs.h             | 1210 +++++++++++++++++
>  .../uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h                  |   13 +
>  .../uapi/rdma/rdma_user_cm.h                  |    6 +-
>  4 files changed, 1303 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_sa.h
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_verbs.h
>  rename {rdma/include => include}/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h (95%)
>  rename {rdma/include => include}/uapi/rdma/rdma_user_cm.h (98%)
> 

Stephen:

Per a recent discussion the RDMA folks need to take ownership of the
uapi files. RDMA features do not hit Dave's net-next tree so the rdma
code can never hit iproute2-next during a dev cycle.