Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] linux-headers: drop pvpanic.h

[Cornelia Huck]

On Sun, Jan 07 2024, Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de> wrote:

> misc/pvpanic.h from the Linux UAPI does not define a Linux UAPI but a
> qemu device API.
>
> This leads to a weird process when updates to the interface are needed:
> 1) Change to the specification in the qemu tree
> 2) Change to the header in the Linux tree
> 3) Re-import of the header into Qemu.
>
> The kernel prefers to drop the header anyways.
>
> Prepare for the removal from the Linux UAPI headers by moving the
> contents to the existing pvpanic.h header.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2023110431-pacemaker-pruning-0e4c@gregkh/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@t-8ch.de>
> ---
>  hw/misc/pvpanic-isa.c                    | 1 -
>  hw/misc/pvpanic-pci.c                    | 1 -
>  hw/misc/pvpanic.c                        | 1 -
>  include/hw/misc/pvpanic.h                | 3 +++
>  include/standard-headers/linux/pvpanic.h | 9 ---------
>  scripts/update-linux-headers.sh          | 3 +--
>  6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>