Re: [PATCH] ARM: Remove BUILD_BUG_ON from asm/bug.h

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Jan 03 2012 - 17:33:02 EST


On 01/03/12 10:44, Simon Glass wrote:
> BUILD_BUG_ON is defined in linux/kernel.h but that is not included by the
> asm/bug.h header which uses it. This causes a build error:
>
> ...include/linux/mtd/map.h: In function 'inline_map_read':
> ...include/linux/mtd/map.h:408:3: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'BUILD_BUG_ON' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> The check is not essential and is not present for other architectures, so
> just remove it.

I thought this check was put in place to catch changes to struct
bug_entry being out of sync with the __BUG macro defined in ARM. Why
can't we include kernel.h instead? Or can you elaborate some more on why
we don't need this check in the commit text?

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