netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] uapi: add missing virtio related headers

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:54:45 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] uapi: add missing virtio related headers

On 6/8/21 11:15 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> vdpa headers were present in commit c2ecc82b9d4c at [1].
> 
> I added them at [1] after David's recommendation in [2].
> 
> Should we remove [1]?
> Did you face compilation problem without this fix?
> 
> [1] ./vdpa/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/abc71731-012e-eaa4-0274-5347fc99c249@gmail.com/
> 
> Parav

Stephen: Did you hit a compile issue? vdpa goes beyond networking and
features go through other trees AIUI so the decision was to put the uapi
file under the vdpa command similar to what rdma is doing.