Re: [PATCH 00/15] Remove asm/segment.h from low hanging architectures

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 16:35:35 EST



On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

On Mer, 2005-08-24 at 11:43 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

The following set of patches removes the use and existence of
asm/segment.h from the architecture ports


You've broken various things by doing this because some driver code
rightly or wrongly uses segment.h. That is fine because they shouldn't
do so. However asm/segment.h isn't supoosed to be removed on
architectures that use segments- like x86, and x86-64. There it is a
real arch private file and shouldn't be disappearing.

It shouldn't be leaking into drivers any more (eg mxser.c is an offender
there)

Ok, so it sounds like my patch to remove drivers from include asm/ segment.h is fine, and we will leave it up to the various arch maintainers to decide if they want to keep asm/segment.h for arch specific usage.

- kumar
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