Re: [PATCH 17/28] tools include uapi: Update asound.h copy

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 31 2018 - 13:27:09 EST


On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 18:00 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:44:57 +0100,
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > To silence this perf build warning:
> >
> > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/sound/asound.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/sound/asound.h'
> > diff -u tools/include/uapi/sound/asound.h include/uapi/sound/asound.h
> >
> > Due to this cset:
> >
> > a98401518def ("ALSA: timer: fix wrong comment to refer to 'SNDRV_TIMER_PSFLG_*'")
> >
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-76gsvs0w2g0x723ivqa2xua3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the correction.
>
> That's bad to have duped files that have to be synced manually...
> At least, some checkpatch addition would help to suggest always
> correct both places?

How could that work in checkpatch?

Wouldn't a symlink be simpler?