linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 45/56] microblaze_v2: headers simple files

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:43 -0600
From:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	"John Williams" <john.williams@...alogix.com>
Cc:	monstr@...nam.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com,
	John.Linn@...inx.com, matthew@....cx, will.newton@...il.com,
	drepper@...hat.com, microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	"Michal Simek" <monstr@...str.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/56] microblaze_v2: headers simple files - empty or redirect to asm-generic

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:34 PM, John Williams
<john.williams@...alogix.com> wrote:
>
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/auxvec.h            |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/cputime.h           |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/div64.h             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/emergency-restart.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/errno.h             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/futex.h             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/kdebug.h            |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/local.h             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/mutex.h             |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/namei.h             |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/percpu.h            |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/resource.h          |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  >  include/asm-microblaze/user.h              |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>
>  These are all just includes of asm-generic/* (hooray!).
>
>  But, is it reasonable to to suggest adding asm-generic at the end of the
>  kernel include path, and save all this verbosity?
>
>  Principle of least surprise maybe?

Convention in the other archs is already established to explicitly
include asm-generic files one by one.  It is probably best to match
existing convention for commonality sake.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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