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 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
