linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] kexec: Remove "weak" annotations from headers

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Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:08:20 +0200
From:   Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] kexec: Remove "weak" annotations from headers

Hi Bjorn,

in recent patches AKASHI [1] and I [2] made some changes to the declarations
you are touching and already removed some of the weak statements. The patches
got accepted on linux-next and will (hopefully) be pulled for v4.17. So you
should prepare for some merge conflicts. Nevertheless three weak statements
still remain (arch_kexec_walk_mem & arch_kexec_apply_relocations*) so your
patch still makes totally sense.

Thanks
Philipp

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/6/201
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/21/278

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:23:29 -0500
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:

> "Weak" annotations in header files are error-prone because they make
> every definition weak.  Remove them from include/linux/kexec.h.
> 
> These were introduced in two separate commits, so this is in two
> patches so they can be easily backported to stable kernels (some of
> them date back to v4.3 and one only goes back to v4.10).
> 
> ---
> 
> Bjorn Helgaas (2):
>       kexec: Remove "weak" from kexec_file function declarations
>       kexec: Remove "weak" from arch_kexec_walk_mem() declaration
> 
> 
>  include/linux/kexec.h |   24 ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
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