Re: fix various asm-generic abuses

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Aug 29 2015 - 09:50:11 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:16:51PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 28 August 2015 09:27:13 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This fixes two trivial classes of asm-generic abuse. First two headers
> > that are intended for drivers are moved to include/linux, and second
> > various drivers that incorrectly use asm-generic headers directly are
> > switched over to use the proper public headers. There are a few more
> > asm-generic abuse, but they aren't quite as trivial so they will take
> > a little more effort to fix.
>
> Thanks a lot, these all look really useful. My normal way of dealing
> with asm-generic patches is to have changes go through the tree of
> whichever maintainer needs the changes for their own work with my
> Ack, but I guess in this case you don't actually have other patches
> depending on them, right?

No, there's nothing depending on it.

> If driver maintainers want to pick individual patches from this series,
> please add my
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> otherwise let me know if I should put them into my asm-generic git
> tree (which is currently empty, but part of linux-next).

Note that the first two are something you should probably pick up either
way as they aren't really specific to a driver.
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