linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] Auto-detect whether a FPU exists

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Date:   Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:33:00 +0800
From:   Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     <vincentc@...estech.com>, Andrew Waterman <andrew@...ive.com>,
        "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, <greentime@...estech.com>,
        <zong@...estech.com>, Darius Rad <darius@...espec.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Albert Ou <albert@...ive.com>,
        <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>, <nickhu@...estech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] Auto-detect whether a FPU exists

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:02:58AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 02:43:36PM +0800, Alan Kao wrote:
> > It does look a little bit weird.  Should I send a v6 for this?
> 
> Yes, please resend the series or just this patch.
> 
> I think the hswap.h definition should go away and we should just
> keep the switch_to.h one, even if that means including the header
> in another C file.
> 

It turns out that only cpufeature.c and switch_to.h are affected
by hwcap.h.  As switch_to.h already had extern has_fpu declaration,
the one in hwcap.h is redundant and can be removed safely.

I will resend just this patch, and mark it as v6.