Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Rename public xenstore headers

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 16:42 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The xenstore header xs.h is producing conflicts with other software[1].
> 
> xs is a too short identifier and does not matche the library. Renaming
> the headers to xenstore.h and xenstore_lib.h is the easiest way to make
> them easy recognizable and prevent furthe problems.

Thanks Bastian.

This needs a Signed-off-by from you, per the DCO at
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/SubmittingXenPatches

For my part:

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

I can't see a good way to do this in a compatible manner for out of tree
users[0], so I think if we are going to make this change then we should
make a freeze exception and do it in 4.2 (i.e. rip the plaster off
quickly rather than have distros solve this their own way while waiting
for 4.3).

Ian.

[0] apart perhaps from having /usr/include/xen-compat/xs.h and
suggesting that people can use -I/usr/include/xen-compat as a bandaid,
but at that point they may as well just sed their code, since they may
need to support 4.1 anyhow.

Ian.
> Bastian
> 
> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/668550



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