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Patch "uapi: add missing install of sync_file.h" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Nov 9, 2016 Stable branch

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

uapi: add missing install of sync_file.h

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
uapi-add-missing-install-of-sync_file.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Emilio=20L=C3=B3pez?= <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:31:42 -0300
Subject: uapi: add missing install of sync_file.h
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From: Emilio López <[email protected]>

commit 58f0f9f75c1b94dabbfc3daa333a4e68536b0a42 upstream.

As part of the sync framework destaging, the sync_file.h header was moved, but an entry was not added on Kbuild to install it. This patch resolves this omission so that "make headers_install" installs this header.

---
 include/uapi/linux/Kbuild |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
include/uapi/linux/Kbuild +1 -0
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ header-y += string.h
 header-y += suspend_ioctls.h
 header-y += swab.h
 header-y += synclink.h
+header-y += sync_file.h
 header-y += sysctl.h
 header-y += sysinfo.h
 header-y += target_core_user.h

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/uapi-add-missing-install-of-sync_file.h.patch