[PATCH 00/24] drm: add extern C guard for the UAPI headers

[Emil Velikov]

On 27 April 2016 at 22:57, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 April 2016 at 07:45, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2016 at 10:47, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>> Dave Airlie pointed out that "polluting" the headers in a manner as seen
>>>> with this series might not be too wise. David H, can we hear your view
>>>> on the topic ?
>>>
>>> For armada and etnaviv, it seems sensible, so I'd be happy to see the
>>> change go in if it means less work for others.
>>>
>>> Hence, for patch 2 and 4,
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
>>>
>> Thank you Russel !
>>
>>
>> Dave, David H,
>>
>> So far we've got 6 (if we count the one Rob gave over IRC) acks on the topic.
>>
>> How do we proceed with this - would you like me to elaborate more on
>> the topic, do you see some serious downfalls with the proposal ? [And
>> yes I agree that tweaking the generator scripts to produce these might
>> be better but that's a bit out of my reach atm]
>>
>> If you are OK should we merge the series via drm-next or danvet's
>> drm-misc ? ... once I we hear from a few more people of course -
>> mainly AMD and Ben.
>>
>
> I still think this should be all or nothing, I don't see why the drm headers
> are special here. So I'd still prefer the kernel add this to all uapi headers
> when it generates them rather than us manually adding it to all of them,
> and forgetting when we add new ones.
>
If you want to pursue and beat the logic into `make headers_install'
do by all means. That will be amazing.
Until that lands can we get this workaround in ? There are a handful
other tweaks that I would love to crack on with.

Like beating some sense into the DDX(en), X and a few others to stop
using the legacy DRM codepaths.

Fwiw I can vouch that on DRM side things won't end up out of
date/sync. As you can see I've been even prompt in nagging people
about MAINTAINERS entries and controversial (?) DRM UAPI changes ;-)


Thanks
Emil