[PATCH v3 0/7] Add a stricter headers check

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Wed Sep 24 19:25:28 CEST 2025


As explained in patch 6, the current headers check can not catch
issues when a public header includes an internal header.

Patch 1-5 fixes have not been marked as backport material as those bugs
seems minor/easy to fix externally (by either including missing headers,
or enabling enable_driver_sdk option).


-- 
David Marchand

Changes since v2:
- major rework, dropping the makefile approach, and instead copying
  headers to a staging directory used by the check,
- rebased,
- dropped changes on raw cnxk drivers and disabled the associated
  build warning in the headers check,

David Marchand (7):
  baseband/acc: fix exported header
  drivers: drop export of driver headers
  eventdev: do not include driver header in DMA adapter
  gpudev: fix driver header for Windows
  drivers: fix some exported headers
  buildtools/chkincs: use a staging directory for headers
  power: separate public and driver headers

 MAINTAINERS                                   |  3 ++
 buildtools/chkincs/meson.build                | 41 +++++++++----------
 buildtools/meson.build                        |  1 +
 buildtools/stage-headers.py                   | 32 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/baseband/acc/meson.build              |  2 +-
 drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_vmbus_reg.h             |  6 +++
 drivers/crypto/cnxk/rte_pmd_cnxk_crypto.h     |  2 +
 drivers/meson.build                           | 28 +++++++++++--
 drivers/net/dpaa/rte_pmd_dpaa.h               |  2 +
 drivers/net/intel/iavf/rte_pmd_iavf.h         |  6 +++
 drivers/net/mlx5/rte_pmd_mlx5.h               |  3 ++
 drivers/raw/dpaa2_cmdif/rte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.h |  2 +
 drivers/raw/ntb/rte_pmd_ntb.h                 |  2 +
 lib/bbdev/meson.build                         | 14 ++++---
 lib/eal/include/meson.build                   |  8 ++++
 lib/eal/meson.build                           | 10 +++++
 lib/ethdev/meson.build                        |  6 +--
 lib/eventdev/rte_event_dma_adapter.h          |  2 +-
 lib/gpudev/gpudev.c                           |  1 +
 lib/gpudev/gpudev_driver.h                    |  4 +-
 lib/meson.build                               | 41 +++++++++++++++----
 lib/mldev/meson.build                         |  5 +--
 lib/power/meson.build                         |  7 +++-
 lib/power/power_cpufreq.h                     | 14 +------
 lib/power/power_uncore_ops.h                  |  1 +
 lib/power/rte_power_cpufreq.c                 |  2 +-
 lib/power/rte_power_cpufreq.h                 | 15 ++++++-
 lib/power/rte_power_uncore.c                  |  2 +-
 lib/power/rte_power_uncore.h                  |  3 +-
 lib/rawdev/meson.build                        |  3 +-
 lib/regexdev/meson.build                      |  3 +-
 lib/security/meson.build                      |  3 +-
 meson.build                                   |  4 ++
 staging/drivers/meson.build                   |  5 +++
 staging/meson.build                           |  7 ++++
 35 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 buildtools/stage-headers.py
 create mode 100644 staging/drivers/meson.build
 create mode 100644 staging/meson.build

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2.51.0



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