Re: Possible rdma-core header conflict

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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
I'm adding linux-kbuild mailing list here, maybe someone there can help?

Thanks

>
> Jason
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