new kernel header file not being packaged in kernel-headers

Jeff Layton jlayton at poochiereds.net
Mon Apr 16 16:27:01 UTC 2012


On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:43:36 +0200
Niels de Vos <devos at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at poochiereds.net> wrote:
> > Recently, I added a new upcall to mainline kernels and with that I
> > added a new header file to describe the upcall/downcall format
> > (include/linux/nfsd/cld.h).
> >
> > I've noticed though that that file is not being packaged in the
> > kernel-headers package, even though the other files in the linux/nfsd
> > dir are. Is there some master list that I need to add this file to? Or
> > do I need to mark this file in some way to ensure that it gets included
> > in kernel-headers?
> 
> I think that's defined in the upstream kernel sources as well.
> You probably need to update include/linux/nfsd/Kbuild and add the new
> file to export.
> 
> Some information can also be found in Documentation/make/headers_install.txt.
> 
> Cheers,
> Niels

Thanks for the pointers everyone. I think that's all that was missing.
I've sent Bruce Fields a patch so hopefully it'll be fixed in mainline
soon.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at poochiereds.net>


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