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

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:17:20 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de, keith.busch@...el.com,
	axboe@...com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: update install list after nvme.h rename

On 12 Jan 2016 09:45, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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?

i have no opinion on either route

on a related note, shouldn't headers install be part of the automatic
kernel checks that are run against repos on kernel.org ?  who runs that
thing ?
-mike

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