From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751191AbdALQcX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:32:23 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-f50.google.com ([209.85.215.50]:36181 "EHLO mail-lf0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbdALQcS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:32:18 -0500 Reply-To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories References: <1483695839-18660-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <1483695839-18660-8-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <20170109125638.GA15506@infradead.org> <464a1323-4450-e563-ff59-9e6d57b75959@6wind.com> To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Christoph Hellwig , arnd@arndb.de, mmarek@suse.com, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-am33-list@redhat.com, nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, airlied@linux.ie, davem@davemloft.net From: Nicolas Dichtel Organization: 6WIND Message-ID: <9d68af8a-a609-d7b1-58a9-f1155313b077@6wind.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:32:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le 12/01/2017 à 17:28, Jan Engelhardt a écrit : > On Thursday 2017-01-12 16:52, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > >> Le 09/01/2017 à 13:56, Christoph Hellwig a écrit : >>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:43:59AM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: >>>> Regularly, when a new header is created in include/uapi/, the developer >>>> forgets to add it in the corresponding Kbuild file. This error is usually >>>> detected after the release is out. >>>> >>>> In fact, all headers under uapi directories should be exported, thus it's >>>> useless to have an exhaustive list. >>>> >>>> After this patch, the following files, which were not exported, are now >>>> exported (with make headers_install_all): >>> >>> ... snip ... >>> >>>> linux/genwqe/.install >>>> linux/genwqe/..install.cmd >>>> linux/cifs/.install >>>> linux/cifs/..install.cmd >>> >>> I'm pretty sure these should not be exported! >>> >> Those files are created in every directory: >> $ find usr/include/ -name '\.\.install.cmd' | wc -l >> 71 > > That still does not mean they should be exported. > > Anything but headers (and directories as a skeleton structure) is maximally suspicious. > What I was trying to say is that I export those directories like other are. Removing those files is not related to that series. Regards, Nicolas