linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/25] asm-generic: Convert all to use Kbuild file

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:09:52 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] asm-generic: Convert all to use Kbuild file

On Friday 12 October 2012 22:26:32 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Please feel free to pluck these patches into your architecture and
> run them to make sure that they boot as well (I only had the compiler
> and not the box... Also I only tested with defconfig, I may have
> broken other configs).
> 
> One note, the best thing about these changes is:
> 
>  390 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 1378 deletions(-)

Thanks a lot for doing this! I had initially converted a bunch of
architectures to use the asm-generic files this way, but gave up
after some of them turned out to be too much work to get in.

Note that while you are addressing all the obvious candidates that
have only a single #include statement in them, there is room to take
this further because a lot of the other header files in architectures
are still identical to their asm-generic counterparts (aside from
whitespace and comments). I would recommend to arch maintainers that
have not already done so to go through all the headers and replace
the identical ones with generated headers that include the asm-generic
version.

	Arnd
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