Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] linux-headers: Update to Linux 6.13-rc7

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, Jan 16 2025, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 15:07 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> On 16/01/2025 14:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
>> > ---
>> >   include/standard-headers/linux/vmclock-abi.h | 182 +++++++++++++++++++
>> >   linux-headers/linux/iommufd.h                |  31 ++--
>> >   linux-headers/linux/stddef.h                 |  13 +-
>> >   3 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>> >   create mode 100644 include/standard-headers/linux/vmclock-abi.h
>> > 
>> 
>> No functional change?
>
> Well, other than adding vmclock-abi.h. The rest is almost all in
> comments apart IIRC from the TAG thing, which shouldn't affect us as we
> don't use C++.
>
> I didn't really want to make those other changes but it seems that's
> the process we use; we have to add the new header to the list in
> update-linux-headers.sh and then have a separate commit which runs the
> script again to do a wholesale import.
>
> I suppose I could have cheated and done the import from 6.13-rc1 again,
> but the extra changes did indeed seem like there should be no
> functional change.

If the other headers are not updated by this change, they will be
updated by a later change anyway; IMHO it doesn't really matter when the
headers are updated, as long as the update is done against a specific,
released Linux version. Dragging along other random stuff is normal for
a headers update.