linux-kernel - Re: core: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 00:33:49 -0500
From:   Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
To:     Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: core: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto
 extable.h

+++ Paul Gortmaker [22/01/17 11:32 -0500]:
>These files were including module.h for exception table related
>functions.  We've now separated that content out into its own file
>"extable.h" so now move over to that and where possible, avoid all
>the extra header content in module.h that we don't really need to
>compile these non-modular files.
>
>Note:
>   init/main.c still needs module.h for __init_or_module
>   kernel/extable.c still needs module.h for is_module_text_address
>
>...and so we don't get the benefit of removing module.h from the cpp
>feed for these two files, unlike the almost universal 1:1 exchange
>of module.h for extable.h we were able to do in the arch dirs.
>
>Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
>Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

For the module.c bit:

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>