Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:07 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/10/2021 10.45, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:01:18 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 6:49 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> >> I thought that it makes sense to have STACK_MAGIC also in this header. Thoughts?
> >
> > You might want to think of a different name for the header file then.
>
> Eh, it seems more reasonable to leave it in kernel.h, then figure out
> how to get rid of it completely. AFAICT it's only used in one single
> place under arch/ (and I can't figure out how that magic value is
> supposed to get there in the first place... that arch was thrown out in
> 2013 and resurrected in 2015, but that particular line doesn't make
> sense), and then in some i915 code which might as well define their own
> cookie.

It's used in two places and probably we may just move it to these two
users, I don't believe will we ever have i915 together with h8300.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko