Hi Luis,

On Friday 12 October 2012 16:49:31 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
> 
> The UAPI changes split kernel API and userspace API
> content onto two separate header files. The userspace
> API drm content was moved to include/uapi/drm/ with the
> same file name while kernel specific API content was
> kept under include/drm/ with the same file name. When
> one file was split into two files the kernel header
> includes the uapi header and a UAPI prefix was added to
> the uapi header for its header guard. When there was no
> kernel API content found the uapi header file was the
> only one that was kept and the original guard for the
> header file was kept. In this particular case the
> original users of this header file were not modified
> and the uapi header file is expected to be picked up
> by path.
> 
> This may work well at compilation on the kernel but when
> backporting this creates a few complexities.

Could you please provide more details about those complexities ?

> To help with
> backporting [0] lets be explicit about the new uapi path
> when there is no respective kernel API header file. For
> more details on the UAPI changes see the lwn article on
> this [1].
> 
> [0] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/507794/
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> Cc: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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