Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: Cleanup <acpi/acpi.h>, <acpi/acpi_bus.h> and <acpi/acpi_drivers.h> inclusions.

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 03:29:05 PM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:29:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 01:21:15 PM Lv Zheng wrote:
> > > Replace direct inclusions of <acpi/acpi.h>, <acpi/acpi_bus.h> and
> > > <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>, which are incorrect, with <linux/acpi.h> inclusions.
> > > 
> > > First of all, <acpi/acpi.h>, <acpi/acpi_bus.h> and <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
> > > should not be included directly from any files that are built for
> > > CONFIG_ACPI unset, because that generally leads to build warnings about
> > > undefined symbols in !CONFIG_ACPI builds.  For CONFIG_ACPI set,
> > > <linux/acpi.h> includes those files and for !CONFIG_ACPI it provides stub
> > > ACPI symbols to be used in that case.
> > > 
> > > Second, there are ordering dependencies between those files that always
> > > have to be met.  Namely, it is required that <acpi/acpi_bus.h> be included
> > > prior to <acpi/acpi_drivers.h> so that the acpi_pci_root declarations the
> > > latter depends on are always there.  And <acpi/acpi.h> which provides
> > > basic ACPICA type declarations should always be included prior to any other
> > > ACPI headers in CONFIG_ACPI builds.  That also is taken care of including
> > > <linux/acpi.h> as appropriate.
> > > 
> > > This patch also includes necessary cleanups in the affected files where
> > > other ACPI headers is also included but not referenced.
> > >
> > 
> > This looks OK to me, but it touches several other subsystems.  It's better to
> > CC such things to linux-kernel at least.
> > 
> > Peter, Matthew, Tony, Konrad, Greg, Bjorn, do you have any objections against this?
> 
> CC-ing Boris and David here.
> 
> I presume the proper compilation tests to make sure they do compile properly
> has been done.

Yes and we're going to run it through the auto build machinery anyway.

Thanks,
Rafael

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