Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2022 22:25:21 +0100 | From | Michal Kubecek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ethtool: update UAPI files |
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote: > Hello Michal, > I was wondering if you could help me with the issue below. > > In short, I'm trying to add a new feature to netlink / ethtool that > requires changes to the UAPI headers. I therefore need to update these > headers in the ethtool userland program as well. > > The problem I'm having is that I don't know the procedure for updating > the headers, which is something I need to build my patch to ethtool on. > > I understand now this is not a straight copy of the kernel headers to > the ethtool repository. > > Should I use some script / procedure / else? > Or should I just post my patch without the headers? (I wonder how we can > verify it though?) > > Any help on the matter would be very appreciated.
See https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/devel.html for guidelines (section "Submitting patches"). What we need are so-called sanitized kernel headers, created by "make headers_install". The easiest way to update them is using the ethtool-import-uapi script linked from that page, usually "master" or "net-next" is the most appropriate argument, depending on your target branch.
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