linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/io.h: remove asm/cacheflush.h include

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Message-ID: <5089479F.6070608@imgtec.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:07:27 +0100
From:	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
To:	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux@...ts.openrisc.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org>,
	<linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org>, Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier@...too.org>,
	Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@...plusct.com>,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/io.h: remove asm/cacheflush.h include

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On 25/10/12 14:40, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 10:21 +0100, James Hogan wrote:
>> Including <asm/cacheflush.h> from <asm-generic/io.h> prevents 
>> cacheflush.h being able to use I/O functions like readl and
>> writel due to circular include dependencies. It doesn't appear as
>> if anything from cacheflush.h is actually used by the generic
>> io.h, so remove the include.
>> 
>> I've compile tested a defconfig compilation of blackfin, openrisc
>> (which needed <asm/pgtable.h> including from it's <asm/io.h> to
>> get the PAGE_* definitions), and xtensa.
>> 
>> Other architectures which use asm-generic/io.h are score and
>> unicore32, and looking at their io.h I don't see any obvious
>> problems.
> 
> Acked-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se> for OpenRISC

Thanks Jonas

> Who's tree should this go via.  I can take it via the openrisc
> tree, but it would be good to get some Ack's that this isn't going
> to break things for the other arch's (in particular score and
> unicore32, since they are untested).

Yeh I'd like some acks from score and unicore32 if possible, since I
didn't notice I needed the openrisc bit until I tried compiling it.

Cheers
James
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