On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:08:56AM +0300, Yigal Korman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Jason Gunthorpe > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 03:03:10PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:24:14PM +0300, Yigal Korman wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > Has anyone noticed that installing rdma-core (or older > >> > librdmacm-devel) package and then installing kernel headers manually > >> > (make headers_install) removes the librdmacm headers? > >> > I actually see it in the make output: > >> > > >> > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install > >> > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h > >> > REMOVE rdma_cma_abi.h rdma_verbs.h rdma_cma.h rsocket.h > >> > > >> > Am I doing something wrong? > >> > Sounds like the kernel rdma headers and librdmacm headers shouldn't > >> > sit in the same directory... > >> > >> It looks like this behavior (removal of header files) was from the beginning of git era. > >> ➜ linux-rdma git:(rdma-next) ✗ git co -b tmp v2.6.34.8 > >> ➜ linux-rdma git:(tmp) ✗ cp ~/src/rdma-core/librdmacm/rdma_verbs.h /tmp/h/include/rdma/ && make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/tmp/h headers_install | grep REMOVE > >> REMOVE rdma_verbs.h > > > > The user space files have also been sharing the directory with the > > kernel files since the start.. Not sure why, but I don't think we can > > change it now. > > > > Maybe someone can patch the kernel to exempt rdma/ from the removal > > process? > > Yeah, that would be a good possible fix for this. > I had a quick look at the kernel headers install scripts and didn't > see any mechanism for this, but I might've missed it. It is in scripts/Makefile.headersinst The change should be in the ... 66 # Work out what needs to be removed 67 oldheaders := $(patsubst $(installdir)/%,%,$(wildcard $(installdir)/*.h)) 68 unwanted := $(filter-out $(all-files),$(oldheaders)) And we should filter out very specific headers, because it is a good thing to remove all other files to ensure that older headers are removed. > I'm adding linux-kbuild mailing list here, maybe someone there can help? > > Thanks > > > > > Jason