[openib-general] patch trouble

[Bryan Green]

Hello,
Many of the patches in subversion fail to have an effect when I apply them to a kernel,
because they create headers in 'drivers/infiniband/include' which depend on being included
before the like-named headers in the toplevel 'include'.  Is there a step I am missing to
make the headers in 'drivers/infiniband/include' get chosen for inclusion first?

Here is an example of such a patch that creates a header file that never gets included:

https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport/2.6.12/gfp_6138_to_2_6_13.patch

Index: linux-2.6.9/drivers/infiniband/include/linux/types.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null   1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/infiniband/include/linux/types.h      2006-04-02
14:40:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_TYPES_BACKPORT_H
+#define LINUX_TYPES_BACKPORT_H
+
+#include_next <linux/types.h>
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+typedef unsigned int gfp_t;
+#endif
+
+#endif