Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kernel.h: Split out COUNT_ARGS() and CONCATENATE()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 03:21:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:24:54 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
> > The COUNT_ARGS() and CONCATENATE() macros may be used in some places
> > without need of the full kernel.h dependency train with it.
> > 
> > Here is the attempt on cleaning it up by splitting out these macros().
> > 
> > --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> >  
> >  #include <linux/stdarg.h>
> >  #include <linux/align.h>
> > +#include <linux/args.h>
> 
> A more energetic patch would have included args.h into each file which
> calls COUNT_ARGS() and CONCATENATE(), and not included args.h into
> kernel.h.  And that appears to be very easy - only bpf uses these things?
> 
> In fact these macros are so weird and ugly I'd be inclined to move them
> into some bpf header so we don't have to see them again.  No
> args.h, which might avoid encouraging others to use them.

We have more users than one and a couple of users that reimplement this macro
under different names.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko