netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ynl: prefix uAPI header include with uapi/

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 11:24:10 +0200
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com, chuck.lever@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ynl: prefix uAPI header include with uapi/

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:09:01AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> To keep things simple we used to include the uAPI header
> in the kernel in the #include <linux/$family.h> format.
> This works well enough, most of the genl families should
> have headers in include/net/ so linux/$family.h ends up
> referring to the uAPI header, anyway. And if it doesn't
> no big deal, we'll just include more info than we need.
> 
> Unless that is there is a naming conflict. Someone recently
> created include/linux/psp.h which will be a problem when
> supporting the PSP protocol. (I'm talking about
> work-in-progress patches, but it's just a proof that assuming
> lack of name conflicts was overly optimistic.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>