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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904102010220.21577@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:11:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: declaration patches

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 18:51 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > >  #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > > index 8499000..d1bac67 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > > @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
> > >  #include <asm/setup.h>
> > >  #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
> > >  #include <asm/hpet.h>
> > > +#include <asm/hw_irq.h>		/* smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt */
> > 
> >   Can we please avoid these useless comments all over the place ?
> > 
> 
> I kept these intentionally because few of these declarations I have
> already fixed earlier.
> For example during process.c unification work developers forget to
> include and fix syscalls.h :

And how does such a comment help not to forget anything ? It's useless
information and just irritating to read like all end of line comments.

Thanks,

	tglx
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